Open Thread – Weekend 23 Nov 2024


Landscape with a winding river, John Atkinson Grimshaw,1868

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Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 24, 2024 8:56 pm

Zafiro

 November 24, 2024 8:46 pm

Cummins taking on responsibility as a somewhat early night watchman hasn’t succeeded. The little Highveld Battler is in to save us.

He just hit a three, which outscores his first innings of 2 from 52 balls.

Aaaannnd … then he leaves an inswinger from Bumrah.
Hits him on the pads.
Looks plumb LBW.
Ump agrees and gives it.
But no.
The moron emulates his idol McSniffy and challenges it.
The DRS shows it knocking over middle and off.
3/12 chasing 500+ and one DRS burnt.

Muddy
Muddy
November 24, 2024 8:58 pm

Cop who killed Ashli Babbitt has ‘significant’ discipline history, including gun incidents: Report.
I’m naturally averse to conspiracy theories, both due to what I perceive as the impracticality and the absence of credible motivation, but I find the events surrounding the 6th of January 2020, at the U.S Capitol to be one of the most suspicious events of my lifetime.

Black Ball
Black Ball
November 24, 2024 9:04 pm

Don’t worry about the cricket. Andrew MacDonald extended his contract prior to the summer. FMD.
To be honest, it’s a marriage made in heaven. Mediocre cricketer coaches mediocre side.
Fat, comfortable arseholes with no feel for the game and what it means to this country. Like Cricket Australia asking parasites if they can have a match on Australia Day.
Get out of the way.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 24, 2024 9:04 pm

The 7/11 ers were fantastic.

Black Ball
Black Ball
November 24, 2024 9:09 pm

Also of sporting note, Manchester City 0-4 Tottenham Hotspur.
5 losses in a row for this side. The mighty Reds can extend the lead at the top to 8 points overnight

Rafiki
Rafiki
November 24, 2024 9:14 pm

This is from an old Punch magazine:
He: “Hello, here’s Smith out for a duck again”.
She: “Did he explain how he made no runs?”
He: “Well, you see, he happened to go in just when Jones was in the middle of his hat trick”.?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 24, 2024 9:20 pm

One of the “true believers” over on Andrew Bolt assuring us that the first act of the Whitlam Government, when elected, was to withdraw the Australian troops from Vietnam…Words fail me!

Muddy
Muddy
November 24, 2024 9:32 pm

My ego demanded I copy and paste this from the tail end of the last page, replying to Roger’s comment about the uniparty:

They are two identical buckets of steaming excrement from the same source. One markets itself as a ‘Family Bucket’ and other as a ‘Business Bucket (pronounced ‘Bouquet’).’

MatrixTransform
November 24, 2024 9:37 pm

The power to name a place denotes authority 

I hereby declare the place formerly known as Melbourne, Bearbrass, or Naarm

to henceforth be legally recognized by its new name

…Retardville

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 24, 2024 9:58 pm

GreyRanga

 November 24, 2024 9:04 pm

The 7/11 ers were fantastic.

As much as KD hates left-handers, he’s going to have to admit that the new 7/11 opener is pure class.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
November 24, 2024 10:15 pm

what is it with the apostrophe?
It’s the septum ring of immaturity. That, and jealousy of Hawai’i.
See also the wierdo underscore letters which the keen-sighted might have witnessed coming and going over the last decade or so.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 24, 2024 10:17 pm

Anybody seen any story about how fresh D.N.A. on a bandanna, may set one of Janine Baldings murderers free? What, forty years down the track?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 24, 2024 10:28 pm

Anyway, “Sliante” to you mob.

I’m having an evening inhaling a couple of good single malts, reading John Terraine’s classic book “1918 – The year Of Victory” and reflecting on why I should pay the Tax Office many thousands of dollars for the priveledge of funding my own retirement.

KevinM
KevinM
November 24, 2024 10:36 pm

Muddy
November 24, 2024 9:38 pm

Labor never wanted to send a second AIF overseas, but what is often lost is that in doing so, Australia gained both combat experience and the necessary equipment to later fight the jungle war. Retaining all of our troops at home would have gained us neither.

I’m not a military expert, but have the feeling that the “Rocketman” has the same idea by sending N Korean troops to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
For the loss of a relatively few troops they gain valuable experience in real combat.

Theory is good but goes only so far and the N Korean army hadn’t seen any action since the real war, and that was a long time ago.

Goosestepping on parade doesn’t cut it.

Indolent
Indolent
November 24, 2024 11:01 pm

This is the WSJ but not paywalled. Also not what you’d expect.
Decline and Fall of America? Not Yet

Trump appears to have broken the codependency of the woke and averted a destructive revolution.

For the past four years Israel has been the leader of the free world. The Jewish state has been the West’s sole protection against Islamist terror, fighting while reviled by the people and countries it was protecting. Its position was similar to that of Donald Trump—demonized, persecuted, targeted for violence.

Now that Israel and the U.S. will again be allies, we can hope Iran will be returned to the Iranian people, Gaza will become a wealthy city-state, and there will be that biblical peace in which each may sit under his fig tree and be unafraid.

Zafiro
Zafiro
November 24, 2024 11:07 pm

At this moment in time, Jasprit Bumrah is playing his 41st Test and is holding a bowling average of 19.94. WTF?

I saw a vid and story on Cricinfo about him showing how his release point is a good yard or so closer to the batsman than other bowlers. Side on vision showed him at 45 degrees with arm fully extended before he let go of the pill. Lots of LBWs. McSweeney today. Steve Smith first ball etc.

Sean
Sean
November 25, 2024 12:04 am

3 down. Australia will probably lose tomorrow. Despite all the bullshit, I still support Australia.

JC
JC
November 25, 2024 4:09 am

My first comment,

Imagine having the entire Western intelligence and security apparatus fixated on NK troops involved in combat on the Russo-Ukraine front and still not being able to produce any footage at all.

Footage. You’re completely obsessed with this “footage” nonsense. How exactly do you propose obtaining this miraculous “footage”? Should the BBC kindly ask Pukin if they can film from the Russian side of the war to interview nork soldiers? You’ve also insisted on drone footage for proof. So, you’re expecting a Ukrainian drone to politely buzz over to Russian troops and ask, “Hey, are you Norks?” Utterly senseless babble.

As for this purported ’30 soldiers to one interpreter’, that’s an interpreter in every platoon. Practically workable. If a lieutenant is bilingual or has a translator, captain commands the lieutenant and then lieutenant commands his squads in their native language. Job done,

As I’ve said, that theory works at the beginning, before entering a hot zone. After that, all bets are off, which is what I’ve referred to—when communication becomes key.
You know, peddling for authoritarian regimes is something else. I bet if Putin and ISIS were on the same side, ISIS wouldn’t look as bad. After all, you seem to have a soft spot for the mullahs who heroically pick off young women for not conforming to their fashion tastes, then rape and kill them. Nice regime you have there.

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