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Not sure that is a good idea. always, always before doing something think about how the other mob will use…
Well well well. We are beyond past where more than a cursory look at Climate 200 is needed by whatever…
I saw a short clip of Biden swinging a golf club while president. He looked awful. Biden might have been…
So many people are so sure that they’ve figured out what really happened to JFK that they don’t think they’ll…
As expected, dealing with Vodafone is an exercise in indignity. Don’t even get a Patel anymore. He’s been replaced by an AI bot.
With a thick foreign accent for a reassuringly familiar experience?
No but it does try to upsell you to a bigger plan.
Having experienced the same level of crappy service from Telstra, Optus and now Vodafone over the years is it now time to commence the cycle all over again?
I think it’s called empowering the consumer with choice.
Just let churn reach the point where you are spending more on customer acquisition.
I am still ambivalent as to whether this is real.
Wow, they are way worse than the Aviation Regiment march past at Oakey family day a few years ago. It was obvious aviation doesn’t do marching.
Been on a big passing out parade , pipes at the front, brass band at the rear … Marching off to “Our Director”, front half the column out of step with the back, both halves in step with what they could hear clearest, but they were a pace out.
Compare to Russian Army.
Of course he won’t be. Engage in acts of Jew hatred, and if the police bother investigating or charging the Jew haters, they’ll just receive a tap on the hand…no criminal conviction here…
A 17-year-old alleged vandal charged over a pro-Palestinian attack that caused more than $100,000 worth of damage to Jewish Labor MP Josh Burns’ electorate office, during which he allegedly hit the glass facade 14 times with a sledgehammer, is on track to avoid a criminal conviction.
The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, and an 18-year-old woman were charged over the vandalism attack in which windows were smashed and slogans, including “Zionism is fascism”, were spray-painted on the St Kilda electorate office of Mr Burns on June 19. Police allege the boy caused $55,000 worth of damage in the alleged vandalism spree that left taxpayers with an total estimated bill of $101,417.
We live in a joke of a country.
It’s disgraceful, but I’m not sure there’d be a different outcome anywhere else in the anglosphere.
Is Singapore counted as part of the Anglosphere?
not the country I grew up in.
the rate of inflow of 3rd worlders and the ceding of sovereignty to the UN it’s hard to even call it a nation anymore
His reasoning is fundamentally faulty.
According to his own logic, only 17% of the eligible voters support Trump.
His logic means Starmer is not the legitimate PM of the UK…
He got 43.7% of a 59% turnout. … Thus 56.3 who voted against him + 41% who didn’t vote (= 97.3%) thus Starmer has support of 2.7% of eligible voters in the UK.
Back in 2013 this is what Kevin Rudd said about Abbott….
Asked about the growing likelihood of armed conflict, Mr Rudd depicted the Liberal leader as a “pugilist” who was suppressing his combative nature and could therefore not be trusted to handle diplomacy where “words are bullets”.
“You’ve got to sit back, think and calmly reflect, and then work through what the best decision is, and temperament and judgment and experience are quite important,” he told the Seven network’s Mark Riley.
I am stunned, absolutely stunned that Tony Abbott has chosen to speak up and advocate for a grub like Kevin Rudd.
He’s probably angling to succeed him.
Although I suspect ScoMo has already submitted his resume.
This is the nonsense attitude that caused his downfall in the beginning and killed the LNP
Mate kick em where it hurts and never let them get up
Renowned analyst of extreme intellect Justin Smith on Sky has determined that appointing Musk and Ramaswamy to reform the US bureaucracy will “end in tears” because of “giant egos”.
Lucky they don’t fire rockets, eh Justin.
OK. Back to the surf report genius.
I have zero sympathy for Justin Welby. Over the last decade he has relentlessly pursued and corrupted the church with woke ideology, be it supporting BLM and the Georgina Floyddina riots in 2020, supporting reparations for colonialism and slavery, refusing to speak up for Christianity in the face of Islam, supporting the country that doesn’t and never will exist…’Palestine’….and so on.
Welby lived for woke, Welby governed the church using woke ideology, and in the end Welby was woked by woke. Serves him right. Live by woke, die by woke..
Talk’s Mike Graham in the UK had a bloke on yesterday talking about Welby and what the CoE need to talk about. Basically he said drop all the progressive stuff and talk about Biblical Christianity and Jesus. What he should’ve done from the get go.
He didn’t always do so.
He switched sides after becoming AofC in a way that is not easily accounted for, unless it was simply a desire to be popular.
I was pleased to hear Gavin Ashenden, the Queen’s former chaplain, given the opportunity to provide some informed & insightful commentary on ABC news radio this morning.
“Woke’s gotta go!” Trumps new head of defence.
https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/1856497145588679059
He didn’t always do so.
If so then it makes Welby even more spineless and craven.
My point.
Su-57 from take off to landing at airshow.
Fantastic
Well done to the camera operator also.
The best commentary on the Archbishop of Canterbury came from Humpy on Yes Minister.
I’ve got nothing but contempt for Abbott.
I heard this piece of doggerel, set during the Abyssinian s crisis of 1936,years ago,but it’s the first I knew the author was Duff Cooper, he of the diaries fame..
The Duce gives the order
To march against the foe
And off to Abyssinia the organ grinders go
But now they’re quite incapable
Of any sort of grind
And they’re back from Abyssinia
With their organs left behind
The hosts of Ethiopia
March back to hearth and home
With knick-knacks for the mantelpiece
Imported straight from Rome
The Pope is inundated
With pleas to join his choir
From men whose tenor voices
Are now an octave higher
Il Duce calls a rally
Of veterans tried and true
“Heroes” he cries “My Heroes
What can we do for you?”
“What price is theirs who answer
Their country when she calls
What shall your Duce give you?”
His soldiers answered “BALLS!”
FEMA not helping Trump voters wasn’t isolated — and it’s a massive scandal
I was wondering just how far this shit went. And it looks like it goes up to the top.
‘War on woke has to be won’: Donald Trump’s cabinet appointments lauded
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/11/rudd-the-village-idiot.html
Numbers Bob turns the post into a session on the Vietnam War, and gets his sorry arze handed to him…
Just saw tomorrow’s Branco on X. It’s good. I’ll leave it for Tom to post.
“You’ve got to sit back, think and calmly reflect, and then work through what the best decision is, and temperament and judgment and experience are quite important,” he told the Seven network’s Mark Riley.
Tone and riley have form:
Tony Abbott’s bizarre response to journalist Mark Riley.mpg
Wasn’t it Mark Riley who asked Julia Gilliard “Prime Minister, what can we do to help?”
Conservatives have come out in support of leftists in matters of principle but it rarely goes the other way.
Our opponents don’t have principles – they have tactics. It’s about time we stopped pretending otherwise.
Cronkite at 3:41 pm
You had your grandma for dinner?
Gross!
Still no news on whether Tulsi Gabbard is getting a gig in Trump’s cabinet.
I do feel she’s owed something for boarding the trump train.
Arky, are you going back to Model A wheels or sticking with the later ones?
Or have a set of both to suit your fancy, alongside the five-slotters. 🙂
I have one original 21 inch wheel off the car, which I just reshod with new rubber at $300 a pop. I’m mounting it where the spare goes on the back for decorative purposes only.
The rest of the car is in 17” 1933-34 Ford wire rims which were used on the Model B, the first model with the flathead V8s.
Two of these came with the car and I think we’re probably a 1950s era addition by some boy racer post WW2 greaser.
I bought all new rubber for the 17 inchers before the shed fire. Two were fine, one was so so, but one was slightly melted. I’m replacing the bad one tomorrow.
I’m looking around for another 17 inch wire wheel.
Plenty in the USA but the $250 postage makes it an iffy prospect. Locally pretty rare to find the exact right ones.
Stop teasing, Nelson.
Genuine Ford 5 slots belong on certain Falcon GTs only, as any fule no.
I am sure Arky will find his way to the true path – chrome reverse rims, narrow whitewalls, a Buick nailhead with multiple carbs and plenty of chrome. Dumped in front, couple of longboards out the back window, and, of course, a deep, smooth paint job – I see apricot, natch.
The result, with care and attention to detail, will look just like something from a Gidget movie. Boss wheels, Man.
I wish I’d thought of the colour.
Excellent trolling, Foxbody.
Correct, it isn’t Monty. Further to Monty, where he is?
Most people who are sane and get a prediction badly wrong will look to see why. They will scrutinise their assumptions, they will doubt their verities and worry about their certainties.
M0nty has a different approach. He just waits for his memory to blur just how big a prat he has been and assumes everyone else will do the same. So after a short wait, he’ll be back, as dumb and wrong about everything as usual. He’s incapable of learning, so he’ll never change.
Yeah, nah.
Most people get pissed off if you try to point out when they were wrong and would prefer not to examine why, indeed, most people, sane or not, perform amazing mental gymnastics to avoid even admitting they were wrong.
Your social circle and mine don’t have much intersection.
Nothing to do with “social circle”, everything to do with having taught over 3000 adolescents, worked on docks and multiple factories, done years of security work in public places, sat for long hours with diggers on piquet duty, and done years of driving idiots home of a night time as a taxi driver in a big city.
I have literally a mental data base of tens of thousands of humans and their conversations under every type of circumstance.
They’re shit.
Aah. The common man. I’ve never had much to do with him. Just as well by the sound of him.
Nearly everyone I know has an IQ over 130. Except my cleaning lady who has a degree in architecture so is only about 120.
So my generalisations aren’t worth much
The average human being doesn’t just lie to multiple people every day about the most trivial things, but lies to themselves with such a constant stream of bullshit that they couldn’t function if forced to tell the truth.
I have had students do something in front of me and when I ask them “Why did you do that” they go “I didn’t” and I say “Not only did I see you do it, I saw you see me see you do it. We both know you did it”
“I didn’t do it”.
This is not a once off. This is what people are like.
I was brought up to tell the truth. It’s my terrible intellectual handicap.
I blame my mum.
Just finished watching Hillbilly Elegy, the story of JD Vance’s early life. Saw it some years ago but well worth another look. Mrs TE originally read his memoir way back.
Just occurred to me the lad is only 40. Onto the POTUS position after Trump. We could have 12 good years of acting bigly!
I cried.
Saddest Song Ever, Barber’s Adagio, Theme from Platoon, Andrzej Kucyba?a conductor
Testify, Brother!
Bed!
Seems we’re in an old fashioned wages-price spiral. How Whitlamesque. Mavis will be excited.
A mass exodus post US election from Twitter to some platform to bluesky. Jane Caro and Vanessa Barham included.
They knew where all the engagement was before 5 November but now Harris lost.
Oh well.
No Musk money for you.
https://x.com/Glinner/status/1856677911605948797?t=T3NK3h6JPWfxbXmL5B1qtg&s=19
Also
https://x.com/Glinner/status/1856702383578886650?t=c8aEccCDNE6jJU6C4rbVIg&s=19
Father clearly a member of the protected species.
https://x.com/khartoum_of/status/1856456283940872548?t=yIje5hzuC1LvEQEZKhbecw&s=19
New innovations required.
They won’t even allow Egyptians to be repatriated.
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1856621991404384461?t=wyB3CXyF10BH8wgjQvl_Rg&s=19
So much fun.
https://x.com/QuetzalPhoenix/status/1856675507909148889?t=0JpnYXGeDlLFDVykxlrqlw&s=19
Nothing ever changes. ABC still extolling the virtues of ‘first peoples’.
20 month prison sentence in the UK for a FB post that opposes mass immigration and raises concern of r@pe gangs.
coming to oz
Their ABC wouldn’t give a fat rat’s clacker about the plight of black fellas in those hellholes like Alice Springs and northern Queensland.
They only care about grifters like Langton and Justin Mohamed and the censured idiot Thorpe, because racism.
Except you dickheads, there isn’t any. Report on something substantive or be silent because you wouldn’t know a black fella if you tripped over one.