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.

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?

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.

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
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.

Rosie
Rosie
October 6, 2024 7:37 pm
Roger
Roger
October 6, 2024 7:37 pm

Vic lib spill?

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

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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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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  2. Chances are good that I won’t be my pleasantly tempered self at 6.30am when the alarm goes off.

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