Open Thread – Weekend 5 Oct 2024


Festival at the Hermitage, Camille Pissaro, 1876


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Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 6, 2024 7:08 pm

Fests.

Stroud brick & rolling pin throwing competition (Ncl local news, 6 Oct)

Guyra Trout Fest: An October long weekend scaly delight (Ncl local news, 5 Oct)

Top climbers test the walls at Tamworth’s Boulderfest (Ncl local news, 6 Oct)

My challenge to fellow humans: win the rolling pin throwing competition, the trout fishing competition and the wall climbing competition. I love local news.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 6, 2024 7:27 pm

A local lad won the “throwing the rolling pin competition” so many years in secession that a representative, from the local show committee, would contact her, prior to the event to ask what she would like as a prize, this year.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 6, 2024 7:28 pm

local lady, FFS….

Pogria
Pogria
October 6, 2024 7:37 pm

My little town has Ferret Races next Saturday. It raises a lot of money for Children’s causes and we have a rip-roaring time. 😀

Gabor
Gabor
October 6, 2024 7:09 pm

Rockdoctor
October 6, 2024 5:40 pm
Reply to Rockdoctor

From comments in Kiwi Blog Captain looks like a DEI hire:

In 2012, Commander Gray and her wife Sharon moved to New Zealand after falling in love with the country during a campervan holiday.

Why?
Don’t they have enough of her ilk in NZ?

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
October 6, 2024 7:15 pm
Reply to  Gabor

I’d be more worried how a school teacher and aspiring chef goes from zero maritime experience to Captain in record time.

This country apparently has our back…

Top Ender
Top Ender
October 6, 2024 7:13 pm

Closing para of Rock Doctor’s link above on the NZ ship loss:

Her campervan passion is still going strong, but the call of the sea is always there too. Commander Gray returned to the RNZN earlier this year after heading off in late 2019 on a 57,000-kilometre road trip around Australia with [wife] Sharon and their dog Dennis.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 6, 2024 7:18 pm
Reply to  Top Ender

Yvonne and Sharon, okaaay.

I’m getting a vibe here.

Rosie
Rosie
October 6, 2024 7:21 pm

It’s never been just about Israel, though it’s very existence is a constant source of humiliation.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/foiled-attack-on-chabad-athens-offers-glimpse-into-irans-anti-jewish-terror-plots/

Rosie
Rosie
October 6, 2024 7:29 pm

It’s bad, but it’s not disappeared like some people are claiming.
https://x.com/Jack_Yordy/status/1842380302678704149?t=QhAVPyhXLrpehq-8jEQbLw&s=19

Rosie
Rosie
October 6, 2024 7:30 pm
Roger
Roger
October 6, 2024 8:06 pm
Reply to  Rosie

Once again, I get nothing.

About 1 in 4 X links don’t work for me.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 6, 2024 9:16 pm
Reply to  Roger

Rosie’s links are difficult. Some of them once up can return you to the Cat by a click on the open tab which removes the contact and takes you back. Others, if you do that, throw you off the Cat completely and you have to go back in again cursing – yes, that was one of those of Rosie’s where you needed to use the arrows in the browser to take you back to the Cat. It’s easy to forget to check.

We didn’t have this problem on the old system, because you used the browser arrow to take you back from every link.

This is not a criticism, Rosie, because your links are really useful, just to stand as a warning to others like me who haven’t worked much tech out yet that this is something to be aware about.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 6, 2024 9:11 pm
Reply to  Rosie

Even more threatening, it is pointed at a Christian cathedral.

This red triangle should be recognised as the equivalent of a Nazi Swastika, for it is supposed to pinpoint the spot where a Hamas terrorist attack will next take place. It is an outright and overt threat. We shoud not that the useful idiots who put Pallie flags and this red sign over the top of Australia’s parliament house not long ago got off with a smack on the wrists for it.

Policing only goes one way in Australia. Against Christian Australia and its traditions.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 6, 2024 9:12 pm

should note

It’s Remarkable
It’s Remarkable
October 6, 2024 7:33 pm

Watching the NRL Graand Final – and of course the obligatory Welcome to Country, by Aunty Julie.
Strike me pink – she is as white as the driven snow, with very blonde hair to boot…..
Blah blah – welcome to the traditional land of my ancestors, etc.
Her ancestors would be heavily dominated by white people.

What a lurk, scam, fraud.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
October 6, 2024 7:45 pm

Same with the mediocre rapper.

I despise the night game to begin with, prefer the afternoon but that was taken up with chicks footy.

Last decent campaign by the NRL would have to be decades ago with Barnesy & Tina Turner. I haven’t been inspired since.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 6, 2024 8:01 pm

People were asked to ‘stand’. The put the National Anthem on after it.

I’d stand for the National Anthem but not until it starts. Not standing for any made-up ceremonial with no anthropological tradition and not needed in a football match.

Dunny Brush
Dunny Brush
October 6, 2024 8:29 pm

Really? Quite a few black fellas hate this stuff. Many are of a quiet, conservative nature. They might get this Marxist indoctrination done over a few generations, but the Welcome to Counties at the games of footy I go to receive at best resentful acknowledgement.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 6, 2024 8:34 pm

Footy fans slam Welcome to Country at NRL Grand Final 2024, accusing Indigenous Elder of being ‘white’

Daily Mail.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 6, 2024 9:19 pm
Reply to  Rosie

link not working

Roger
Roger
October 6, 2024 7:37 pm

Vic lib spill?

Fairweather friends; they were all behind him when he expelled Deeming.

Last edited 3 months ago by Roger
mem
mem
October 6, 2024 7:43 pm
Reply to  Roger

Hopefully the b333333d is gone soon. He obfuscates on renewables and I suspect is complicite. Follow the money.

Roger
Roger
October 6, 2024 7:53 pm
Reply to  mem

Yes, mem; but the odds are his replacement won’t be much better and quite possibly worse.

Another empty suit careerist whom Labor rejected for good reason.

Last edited 3 months ago by Roger
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 6, 2024 7:48 pm
Reply to  Roger

If you spill a decaffinated soy latte in a forest will anyone even notice?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 6, 2024 7:58 pm

I find it pleasing that ‘Rescue the Republic’ has become a sort of meme.

The Democrats have banged on forever about ‘democracy’ meaning ‘what they want rather than what the people want’, but the truth is the the Union of the United States is a Republic, which is a different sort of political animal. It has balances in it to protect states, just as we have in our own parliamentary Westminster system. Maintain the Republic – it has a cry familiar to students of ancient Rome.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
October 6, 2024 8:12 pm

Yes I know, rap is not for everyone. Why do I post this? Becuase he takes the piss out of all the pretentious dickheads.

Funny stufff. He made a lot of enemies. He’s retreated into the woods, figuratively speaking.

End of the day, he doesn’t give a f*ck.

Black Elvis – Intro:

Intro

Last edited 3 months ago by Steve Trickler
Muddy
Muddy
October 6, 2024 8:56 pm
Reply to  Steve trickler

You are the monsters of the original Mr. Softee icecream trucks!

Haha! Wot tha?

I give you: Tom MacDonald.
One of his shorter ones, and two months old now, but with 7.4 million views and who knows how many more views via YouTube reactors.

Roger
Roger
October 6, 2024 8:17 pm

Fairweather friends; they were all behind him when he expelled Deeming.

And if anyone avers “if you want a friend in politics get a dog”, my reply is that if the Liberals put forward a dog as a candidate I’d happily vote for it.

At least I’d be getting a representative who exhibited loyalty and a modicum of intelligence.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
October 6, 2024 8:23 pm

At least I’d be getting a representative who exhibited loyalty and a modicum of intelligence.

Hear Hear Roger. – the Liberal party is moribund as a conservative force too many wokesters, lawyers and wankers – too many in it for themselves, the lurks and perks – the fact that the Liberals had unfailingly preferenced the Greens and Labor ahead of Pauline Hanson and other conservative minor parties says it all — they don’t want to win they want to coast.

Last edited 3 months ago by Tintarella di Luna
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 6, 2024 8:43 pm

I would ban from being a Liberal candidate anyone who doesn’t own and drive a V8 vehicle. Either petrol or diesel is fine. (See my earlier comment about Libs driving EVs.)

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
October 6, 2024 8:54 pm

Do I get an honourable mention with a turbo V6 Patrol?

Muddy
Muddy
October 6, 2024 9:06 pm

The LNP is the definition of political rigor mortis, with the appearance of movement being escaping gas from the underlying organic decay. No matter how hard and how often you wish upon that star, it is NOT POSSIBLE to breathe life back into a corpse. Pay your respects, spread the ashes in Lake Burley Griffin, and move on. Or remain in fantasy world, where ‘magic happens’ and the universe will provide your every need.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
October 6, 2024 8:26 pm

Peter Dutton has much to contend with inside the spineless Liberals, however, that he becomes Prime Minister is on my prayer list — that would be great for Australia even better because it would be a metphorical sock in the eye to the reptilian Turnbull.

Roger
Roger
October 6, 2024 8:27 pm

He’s the best of a bad bunch, Tinta.

That is all.

But that is something.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 6, 2024 9:15 pm
Reply to  Roger

That’s as high as the Lieborals will ever reach for the foreseeable future.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 6, 2024 9:13 pm

Waffleworth and the Lieborals gave us three years of SloMo as the not Dutton candidate. Worse than a compact fluorescent lightbulb.

Miltonf
Miltonf
October 6, 2024 8:39 pm

One thing in Dutton’s favour is Trumble fought like a vicious little cat to stop Dutton succeeding him.

Miltonf
Miltonf
October 6, 2024 8:47 pm

Peter Dutton has much to contend with inside the spineless Liberals, however, that he becomes Prime Minister is on my prayer list

Same

Miltonf
Miltonf
October 6, 2024 8:48 pm

Australia’s too good to ruin.

Muddy
Muddy
October 6, 2024 9:10 pm

Apropos of nothing, here’s a YouTube short of Tom MacDonald and his girlfriend Nova, commenting on Mackle-something who apparently said ‘Firetruck ‘Merica.’

‘Tis funny.

Muddy
Muddy
October 6, 2024 9:26 pm

It’s not about the left or the right or the middle,

I’m goin’ to war, I will not keep it civil.

F*ck them!

Young Merkules – ‘Rich Men North of Richmond Remix’ (Original: Oliver Anthony).

Lawgi Dawes-Hall
Lawgi Dawes-Hall
October 6, 2024 9:29 pm

No reason

Electrical Storm

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
October 7, 2024 6:52 am

I’ve heard that music once before, and it stuck in my head all night. Unusual.

John H.
John H.
October 6, 2024 9:53 pm
Rosie
Rosie
October 6, 2024 10:22 pm

Israeli soldier talks about his experiences on the front line in Lebanon.
(You’ll have to translate from Hebrew)
https://x.com/NeilMegas/status/1842572640906858640?t=nBuPBn_c2ESb2N9MrzPzxg&s=19

  1. Apologies if already posted. https://oversight.house.gov/release/breaking-hhs-formally-debars-ecohealth-alliance-dr-peter-daszak-after-covid-select-reveals-pandemic-era-wrongdoing/ I would have thought the Biden administration formally banning Daszak would have been bigger news.

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