Open Thread – Weekend 5 Oct 2024


Festival at the Hermitage, Camille Pissaro, 1876


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Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 5, 2024 6:54 pm

Sacre Bleu!

Cannot match that. Ok I can, but you and I have done the Ike & Tina single to death, so no I really can’t. I’ll go with a nice little performance though:

Orkestra Obsolete play Blue Monday using 1930s instruments (2016)

I wish the BBC would commission more like this bit of genius, but it’s a one off sadly.

Rabz
October 5, 2024 6:59 pm

BoN – it’s a Saturday Night disco and Rock and Roll show, Squire!

If ya Want Want with Miss Maggie Dodgers … 🙂

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Rosie
Rosie
October 5, 2024 7:05 pm
Top Ender
Top Ender
October 5, 2024 7:09 pm

it’s a Saturday Night disco and Rock and Roll show

Going to a birthday bash in Melbourne next weekend with that theme. So far my costume is a black T shirt and a Peace medallion, and I’m going as a roadie…

Mrs TE may say otherwise.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 5, 2024 7:10 pm

BoN – it’s a Saturday Night disco and Rock and Roll show, Squire!

Heh, you give me ideas!

Tina Turner – Disco Inferno (1993)

Great cover!

MatrixTransform
October 5, 2024 7:14 pm

Donna Summer … of course!

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Rabz
October 5, 2024 7:16 pm

Now is hopefully not tomorrow – NRL Grand Final gathering at the Cottage with various Cats.

With a bit o’ daylight saving thrown in for the peoples existing north of the Tweed!

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 5, 2024 7:20 pm

Getting this disco dance thing. Ok not, I’m still stuck in the sixties.

Chuck Berry – You Never Can Tell (1964)

Via someone called Quentin Tarantino. Ridiculously good movie.

Rabz
October 5, 2024 7:21 pm

Donna Summer:

Oooohh it’s so good 🙂

Top Ender
Top Ender
October 5, 2024 7:23 pm

Have no idea what an “influencer” does but apparently you now get fined a bucket of money in north Queensland for feeding a crocodile a roast chook.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13926747/influencer-roast-chicken-crocodile.html

Rabz
October 5, 2024 7:28 pm

Gorgeous 🙂

Roger
Roger
October 5, 2024 7:32 pm

BoN – it’s a Saturday Night disco and Rock and Roll show, Squire!

Good Heavens!

Isn’t there a Mosaic law that prohibits the mixing of these two genres?

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Rabz
October 5, 2024 7:34 pm

Used to skate at Canterbury ice rink

Homebush, Squire – to Boz Scaggs, in my Bauer’s …

With a bit of ice hockey thrown in at Prince Alfred Park …

Various Cats experiencing ice skating.

In the Seventies.

FFS. 🙂

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Arky
October 5, 2024 7:37 pm

Various Cats experiencing ice skating.

In these liberal, permissive times, it isn’t even something to be ashamed of.

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MatrixTransform
October 5, 2024 7:38 pm

boz scaggs – lowdown

… disco adjacent?

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
October 5, 2024 7:39 pm

That article by Harry Richardson on Noel pretty well much nails it but a small bone of contention.

Warren Entsch should be the last person to throw nepotism accusations around. He’s just as bad and has a Mrs standing for a seat of Cairns so I sniff dog and pony show for the Qld election…

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
October 5, 2024 7:40 pm

Tom, regarding your comments about propaganda by The Australian I have to disagree.

“No, Australians aren’t “protesting in solidarity with Gaza””

The article you quoted from is talking about the pro Palestinian protests so those are obviously in solidarity with Gaza.

Vicki earlier commented about today’s Oz coverage of Israel v Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran. I normally read the Oz online but the paper edition front page is very much emphasising the issue with pretty much all the senior journalists commenting. It was very noticeable and obviously done to remember what happened.

The Oz angle has been very pro Israel throughout and very critical of PM, Penny Wong and Labor on their policy handling. I would say Oz articles 90% strongly in favour of Israel and Jewish side. If I was a Jew I would be very satisfied with their coverage and especially today’s edition.

Also remember that Lachlan Murdock has visited Israel and I believe visited the relevant locations.

Somebody also mentioned John Anderson’s interview with Victor David Hanson and agree it is very well worth a listen.

Rabz
October 5, 2024 7:40 pm

Yarks – we were teens, FFS, it wasn’t right, but then, ELO started blaring … 🙂

Rosie
Rosie
October 5, 2024 7:41 pm
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 5, 2024 7:42 pm

Some more disco!

Lady Marmalade (2001)

MatrixTransform
October 5, 2024 7:42 pm

the missus says, Bruno Mars

Rosie
Rosie
October 5, 2024 7:43 pm
MatrixTransform
October 5, 2024 7:55 pm

then missus also says … Ripple

Rabz
October 5, 2024 7:55 pm
Rabz
October 5, 2024 7:59 pm

Or steal my sunshine, I tells ya! 🙂

Rabz
October 5, 2024 8:06 pm
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 5, 2024 8:08 pm

Smooth disco. We’re lost in music, caught in a trap!

Sister Sledge – Lost In Music (1979)

Miltonf
Miltonf
October 5, 2024 8:10 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRUQBfecBnw

The Monitors – Singing In The ’80’s (1980)

Indolent
Indolent
October 5, 2024 8:19 pm

Dr. John Campbell

Moderna fine

A joke.

Rabz
October 5, 2024 8:19 pm

Cracking the Code – Magnifique … 🙂

cohenite
October 5, 2024 8:23 pm

Saturday night and some titles for the jaded:

Mrs. Rasmussen’s Book of One-Arm Cookery and Legless Pigéage  by Mary (fingerlicking) Laswellsovitch.

Harnessing the Earthworm and Profiting from Grubs. by Thomas J. Barrett

Shag the Caribou and Bottsie the Buffalo by C. Bernard Rutley

The Inheritance of Hairy Ear Rims, Overhanging Top Lips and Asymmetrical Dimples  by Dr. Reginald Ruggles Gates and P. N. Bhaduri. PhD.

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Miltonf
Miltonf
October 5, 2024 8:24 pm
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 5, 2024 8:28 pm

“Looking at lovers names carved in a tree, doesn’t strike me as particularly romantic. I just wonder who finds it necessary to carry a sharp knife, on a date.”

H/T Mme Zulu, browsing Facebook.

JC
JC
October 5, 2024 8:29 pm

The Inheritance of Hairy Ear Rims, Overhanging Top Lips and Asymmetrical Dimples  by Dr. Reginald Ruggles Gates and P. N. Bhaduri. PhD.

Which reminds me, Walz has an upside down mouth. He has an upside down smile. Really weird.

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Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
October 5, 2024 8:32 pm

Is the coverage of Melania Trump’s spoken position on a woman’s right to choose life or death for her baby more focused on her and that right, or on the fact that Trump might hold a more “right to life” opinion?
Isn’t it OK for a husband and wife to have divergent opinions in the brave new/old world of leftist woke reset politics?
Is it obfuscatory and vindictive to blame Trump for a decision of the US Supreme Court to (in effect) throw such legislative initiatives back to the states?
The US system gives states the ability to organise many things. The complaints about Trump are just the usual misinformation.

Rabz
October 5, 2024 8:39 pm

Walz has an upside down mouth. He has an upside down smile. Really weird

Being a massive fatal coronary waiting to happen might not just help, Squire.

Rabz
October 5, 2024 8:42 pm

Pink and Bleu

OutKast is with Fatty Trump, Cats. 🙂

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 5, 2024 8:51 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8BHQz9SVmE

Kris Kristoffersen and Rita Coolidge – this song was playing the night we decided “to give it a go.” and set up house together. Forty years ago.

Rabz
October 5, 2024 8:58 pm
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 5, 2024 9:12 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTyGknggWn4

This one’s for Rabz. “Proud Mary.”

LB2
LB2
October 5, 2024 9:30 pm

The right answer

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Rabz
October 5, 2024 9:33 pm
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Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
October 5, 2024 9:33 pm

May get lost in Rabz Saturday night ballroom blitz but from Small Dead Animals a few days back but a video on the illegal traffic to the US thru Castro’s illegitimate son’s Canada. 56min long so forewarned:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXdu8gkNLTk

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 5, 2024 9:46 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeb0OI8wXN4

“Sliante” to all you mob. The immortal Warren Zevon.

Payday for self funded retirees has been a snorter, which I don’t reckon is too bad for one of the kids “off the sandplain” who got their first job, picking stumps at a dollar an acre. The A.D.F gave me the first new pair of shoes I ever owned.

Pogria
Pogria
October 5, 2024 9:48 pm

An appropriate anthem for these dark times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGCdLKXNF3w

Indolent
Indolent
October 5, 2024 9:48 pm

@nicksortor

Are these people stupid? Or does the Harris Biden regime just HATE America?

Didn’t they just say they don’t have enough money for Hurricane relief??!

Now they have MORE cash to ship overseas??!

This is INFURIATING.

Indolent
Indolent
October 5, 2024 9:50 pm

@catturd2

If Elon Musk didn’t buy X – we wouldn’t be getting the real truth from citizens in North Carolina.

Indolent
Indolent
October 5, 2024 9:51 pm

@WallStreetApes

Hurricane Helene victim says you can’t tell the government you’re bringing them aid or they’ll stop you

“F*cking lie and say that you live here, you’re coming home, you have a 100% pure pathway. Deny. Deny. Deny. Do not say you’re bringing stuff to aid us because they’re turning you around — yeah, that’s happening. So just with that said, be be sneaky. Sneak it in here.

Kamala Harris admin won’t let aid come through. This is what America has been reduced to… unbelievable

Indolent
Indolent
October 5, 2024 9:58 pm
Indolent
Indolent
October 5, 2024 10:00 pm
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