Open Thread – Weekend 23 Nov 2024


Landscape with a winding river, John Atkinson Grimshaw,1868

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Roger
Roger
November 23, 2024 7:20 pm

We shouldn’t trust them on ANY numbers, especially numbers that advance their narrative and their agenda.

For starters…

160 000 a year isn’t “cutting immigration.”

Dutton is a pyromaniac masquerading as a firefighter.

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 23, 2024 7:22 pm

The Sydney Morning Vomit has been a despicable rag since the early 80s. It just keeps plumbing new depths.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
November 23, 2024 7:29 pm

The question to ask our Amerian friends is:
“Have you just voted in Tony Abbotts Older Brother?”

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 23, 2024 7:30 pm

Well seeing he hasn’t assumed office yet, your bellyaching is premature.

Indolent
Indolent
November 23, 2024 7:31 pm
Rabz
November 23, 2024 7:35 pm

For all those Orwellian Stalino-Hitlerists out there, envisioning your wondrous panopticon state, mate …

From 1979:

They can film you in bed

Or when you take a bath

They can tape every cry

They can tape every laugh

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Indolent
Indolent
November 23, 2024 7:39 pm
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 23, 2024 7:40 pm

Remaining Bali Nine members could be home in time for ChristmasBy James MassolaUpdated November 22, 2024 — 10.30pmfirst published at 9.18pm

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The five remaining members of the Bali Nine could be transferred to Australia as soon as next month after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese directly lobbied new Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto.

Doesn’t that just make you feel so uplifted? Naah, me neither.

Indolent
Indolent
November 23, 2024 7:45 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 23, 2024 7:45 pm

cohenite

 November 23, 2024 5:19 pm

He has a husband and a couple of kids.

Is that a typo or is he a pillow puncher?

Please.
It’s pillow biter or dung puncher.
There is no such thing as a pillow puncher.
Get it right, Cronkite.

Rosie
Rosie
November 23, 2024 7:55 pm

I’m glad the Bali 9 remnants are coming home.
Lots of dealers, including many internationals get to do comparatively easy time in Australia.
Addicts also have choices.

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Diogenes
Diogenes
November 23, 2024 7:56 pm

The British Army is ready to fight Russia “tonight” if it invades another European nation in addition to Ukraine, a top military official declared.

500 millions pounds cut from defence budget. Larger warships laid up in “ordinary”.

Image Dr Evil voice …. Riiiiiight

P
P
November 23, 2024 7:58 pm
Rabz
November 23, 2024 8:02 pm

This charming man is now a cultural outlaw, for questioning certain shibboleths …

One pure piece of pop.

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 23, 2024 8:10 pm

The British Army is ready to fight Russia “tonight” if it invades another European nation in addition to Ukraine, a top military official declared.

21st century pommyland would be pathetic if it wasn’t so grotesque.

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 23, 2024 8:13 pm

I feel so sorry for the good British people who voted for Brexit. I’m certain the maliciously incompetent actions of the ruling class are to punish these people.

Louis Litt
Louis Litt
November 23, 2024 8:15 pm

https://youtu.be/jBkQ6kzissM?si=XZ_NXAzguR5c8vaS
steve trickler
this an baker street were released close to eachother.
the song matches the beauty of the imagery of an industrial town.
its like an agricultural village but with steel, heat and hard physical skill – also the brains to run this all.
one of my a
l time fav’ s hope you enjoy it

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 23, 2024 8:15 pm

Update for m0nster.
Trump leads Kamal-toe by just on 2.5 million votes.
There is a touch under 1.2 million votes outstanding in California.
Gonna be tough for Kamal-toe to win the poplar vote from here.

Roger
Roger
November 23, 2024 8:16 pm

The British Army is ready to fight Russia “tonight” if it invades another European nation in addition to Ukraine, a top military official declared.

And the Russian army was ready to invade Ukraine in February 2022.

It’d be funny if only so many lives weren’t at stake.

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Rabz
November 23, 2024 8:19 pm

Another slab o’ good ol’ Manchester

They rarely ever got it right, except when they did, such as this piece of pure R ‘n’ R …

White Robot
White Robot
November 23, 2024 8:19 pm

My tailshaft bigotry comes from real life. The Melbourne based ADC has not a whit or comma regarding Alan Jones who helped their subscribers. I get not backing Pell. They make arses of themselves by having the D. US model.

Louis Litt
Louis Litt
November 23, 2024 8:21 pm

https://youtu.be/5pj5cKNX-1I?si=6e_Ep-NYAiVXi2wl
steve trickler

this is one of the first tunes I heard on my transistor radio – in Oz the bands name was Osmosis. In South Africa the bank called itself Sprinkboc.

Indolent
Indolent
November 23, 2024 8:21 pm

England vs. Elon Musk

This could be embarrassing!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 23, 2024 8:23 pm

Captain Carbon and the Carbonettes copping a shellacking in Perf.
Leading by 46 on the first innings, the Injuns are 0/150 in the second.
On top of all that, Sniffy McCheaty made a first ball duck.
Luverly stuff.

Louis Litt
Louis Litt
November 23, 2024 8:25 pm

https://youtu.be/Bo-qweh7nbQ?si=r1zMJmBWbtGHirOr
steve trickler
on perfect match one episode – this bird asked the contestants what song would you sing to me – this one just leapt out of me

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 23, 2024 8:27 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly6ZhQVnVow

Led Zeppelin – “Stairway to Heaven.”

Indolent
Indolent
November 23, 2024 8:27 pm
Winston Smith
Winston Smith
November 23, 2024 8:34 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE5p8BK5HdU
Aussie politicians secretly sold out the public to a US gas corporation, costing taxpayers billions while enriching themselves and leaving Australia with the world’s highest gas prices.

Rabz
November 23, 2024 9:04 pm

Cats – I incorrectly compared this fantastic tune to Talking Heads circa ’79, when it’s actually the Tom Tom Club that Annie Clark is “borrowing from”.

She has been listed among the best guitarists of the 21st century

err, really?

Live on the Graeme Nortoni show.

I report, you decide, Cats.

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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 23, 2024 9:32 pm

Reading Antony Beevor’s account of D-Day and the battle for Normandy.

After the capture of Caen – the first major town in Normandy to be captured – the British Second Army held what was supposed to be a victory parade on the Place Saint – Martin.

A Scottish pipe band struck up, as the tricolore was raised. The bewilderment on the faces of the French crowd was plain.

They had never heard the “Marseillaise” played on bagpipes. (Page 273.)

Rabz
November 23, 2024 9:37 pm

Any thoughts on when albansleazy will go for the feral erection?

It won’t be his decision, but whenever the loathsome expedient cynical corruptocrats in labore HQ think the most “furniture” can be salvaged.

Can they place enough pressure on guv karen bollocks* to magic up an interest rate cut any time between now and May ’25?

They longer they wait, the more toasted they’ll be.

Which suggests March next year, just after everyone’s realised they’re way, way more worse off post Christmas than they’ve ever been before.

Strategic genius, to be sure. In other words, they’ve missed their chance, thank bloody goodness.

*Trigger Warning: Hideously uglee ol’ dragon

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Muddy
Muddy
November 23, 2024 9:38 pm

Now for something ethereal (that belongs on a David Lynch soundtrack)…
Dysphorid – The Fool.YouTube.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
November 23, 2024 9:46 pm

Clocked on to see the last boring 20 minutes of the Test in Perth. Lollipop bowling and blocking batting. Snore.

Then the telecast went to the Hurricanes v Scorchers over the road at the WACA, Except it was the sheilas version.

They only have to hit the ball 30 metres to get 4 runs. Strangely, the crowd at the WACA seemed larger than at the Test match.

Sunday looks like a day to lounge and read a book, Or go to the pub and watch what races are on.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 23, 2024 9:56 pm

https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/11/albanese-right-at-home-with-terror-leader.html

Anthony Albanese slobbering over Yasser Arafat. Words fail me, they honestly do.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 23, 2024 9:59 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93IXV6yeEfk

La Marseillaise, on the bagpipes..

Rabz
November 23, 2024 10:02 pm

A tune for poor ol’ Pol Dot, engaging as he is, in a bit o’ Kampuchean jungle languishing … 😕

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 23, 2024 10:05 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SFG1OuZ-Hs

“River dance”, anyone?

Bruce in WA
November 23, 2024 10:42 pm

Satadee night.

Horny sheilas of my yoof, Part Un

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgOd3dQicJA

Indolent
Indolent
November 23, 2024 10:42 pm
Bruce in WA
November 23, 2024 10:45 pm

Horny sheilas of my yoof, Part Deux

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeMvMNpvB5M

Bruce in WA
November 23, 2024 10:54 pm

Horny sheilas of my yoof, Part Trois

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbZq5idUJcI

Michael
Michael
November 23, 2024 11:02 pm

Talking Heads in Sydney 1979. I was there.

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