Open Thread – Remembrance Day 2024


Poppy Field near Vetheuil, Claude Monet, 1879

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H B Bear
H B Bear
November 13, 2024 7:23 pm

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 He’s been replaced by an AI bot.

Eyrie
Eyrie
November 13, 2024 7:34 pm

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.

Eyrie
Eyrie
November 13, 2024 7:35 pm

Compare to Russian Army.

Cassie of Sydney
November 13, 2024 7:39 pm

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.

Lee
Lee
November 13, 2024 8:03 pm

Sancho Panzer

 November 13, 2024 5:46 pm

On Spud logic (which he used on Sinc-Cat to try to say 93.1% of Americans were agin Trump in 2016).

Let’s look at the popular vote. Best projection (they’re still counting here and there) is Trump 50.5%, Harris 48.0%.

Turnout was 65%, which means that 35% of Yanks had no say in the result.

If you add votes for Harris to the quantum of non-voters, you get 48% + 35% (100% – 65%) = 83%.

What the school teacher fails to grasp is that the 50.5% and 48% are of the votes cast, so you simply can’t add them to abstentions … apples and oranges.

If turnout was 65%, Trump got 50.5% of 65% (32.825%) and Kamal-toe got 48% of 65% (31.2%). This doesn’t quite add to 65% because of minor candidates.

He then makes the leap that the other 35% of abstentions “didn’t want Trump”.

His reasoning is fundamentally faulty.

According to his own logic, only 17% of the eligible voters support Trump.

Cassie of Sydney
November 13, 2024 8:13 pm

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.

bons
bons
November 13, 2024 8:32 pm

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.

Cassie of Sydney
November 13, 2024 8:34 pm

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..

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Roger
Roger
November 13, 2024 8:43 pm

Welby lived for woke

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.

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mem
mem
November 13, 2024 8:50 pm

“Woke’s gotta go!” Trumps new head of defence.
https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/1856497145588679059

Cassie of Sydney
November 13, 2024 8:51 pm

He didn’t always do so.

If so then it makes Welby even more spineless and craven.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 13, 2024 9:12 pm

The best commentary on the Archbishop of Canterbury came from Humpy on Yes Minister.

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 13, 2024 9:20 pm

I’ve got nothing but contempt for Abbott.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 13, 2024 9:31 pm

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!”

Indolent
Indolent
November 13, 2024 9:33 pm
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 13, 2024 9:50 pm

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…

Little Gidding
Little Gidding
November 13, 2024 9:52 pm

Just saw tomorrow’s Branco on X. It’s good. I’ll leave it for Tom to post.

cohenite
November 13, 2024 10:04 pm

“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

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 13, 2024 10:09 pm

Cronkite at 3:41 pm

But the poor thing would not lay so Grandma did what had to be done and we had her for dinner.

You had your grandma for dinner?
Gross!

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
November 13, 2024 10:14 pm

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.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
Nelson_Kidd-Players
November 13, 2024 10:24 pm

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. 🙂

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
November 13, 2024 10:31 pm

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.

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 13, 2024 10:40 pm

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!

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
November 13, 2024 10:50 pm
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Barry
Barry
November 13, 2024 10:55 pm

Testify, Brother!

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Steve trickler
Steve trickler
November 13, 2024 11:13 pm

Bed!

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 13, 2024 11:39 pm

Seems we’re in an old fashioned wages-price spiral. How Whitlamesque. Mavis will be excited.

Rosie
Rosie
November 14, 2024 6:21 am

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

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Rosie
Rosie
November 14, 2024 6:24 am
Rosie
Rosie
November 14, 2024 6:26 am

New innovations required.
They won’t even allow Egyptians to be repatriated.
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1856621991404384461?t=wyB3CXyF10BH8wgjQvl_Rg&s=19

Damon
Damon
November 14, 2024 8:34 am

Nothing ever changes. ABC still extolling the virtues of ‘first peoples’.

Black Ball
Black Ball
November 20, 2024 5:35 pm

Nothing ever changes. ABC still extolling the virtues of ‘first peoples’.

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.

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  1. I have no doubt that Elon Musk would have been enemy No. 1 if Trump had not won the election.…

  2. Hunter Biden accused of stiffing LA landlord out of over $300,000 in rent after being pardoned by dad Joe

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