Open Thread – King’s Birthday Weekend 2024


King Charles III, Jonathan Yeo, 2024

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Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 10, 2024 9:09 pm

H B Bear
 June 10, 2024 8:30 pm

A little late but SBS had a great program last night on historical Melbournibad.

Can you remember what it was called?
I reckon I’ve seen it before (at least some of the old footage) and wanted to view it again to get my bearings on the old buildings and streetscape.

Last edited 7 months ago by Sancho Panzer
mem
mem
June 10, 2024 10:05 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

There is a film called Melbourne, The lost city. It is a documentary with historical footage. It was shown in independent theatres, eg. Lido year before last.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 10, 2024 10:28 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Something like Lost Melbourne or Forgotten Melbourne. It did focus on movies and theatres.

bons
bons
June 11, 2024 7:41 am
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

It reminded me that Whelan the Wrecker was condidered to be a celeb in the 60’s and 70’s.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 10, 2024 9:39 pm

Rosie
 June 10, 2024 9:11 pm

The perfidy!

https://x.com/AvivaKlompas/status/1799787446231511533?t=9b_0oEJOIz7MIM3Bve3M6w&s=19

How dare they!
And it’s not the first time they’ve pulled this stunt either.
Ehud Barak dressed as a woman back in 1973 (before it was fashionable) as part of a raid to kill PLO terrorists in Beirut.
The thought was that several men travelling together might draw attention, so several disguised themselves as women.
Of course, to be as unobtrusive as possible passing himself off as an Arab woman, he had to put on 10 kgs and let his facial hair grow.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 11, 2024 8:28 am
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

He was actually wearing Dolly Parton sized “falsies” and a blond wig..

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 10, 2024 9:59 pm

Dover, I think your spaminator ate a post I made about windfarms on Four Corners?

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
June 10, 2024 10:24 pm

From their ABC:

Analysis by John Lyons

Hamas has had its day of reckoning over the violent October 7 attacks, but Israel’s day of reckoning for its eight-month-long response is still to come. The question is, has its response been proportional?

The two sides’ actions cannot be proportional when you consider they each set out with different goals in mind. Hamas did not aim to eliminate the IDF.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 10, 2024 10:31 pm

Lyons is one of the more objectionable characters at the ALPBC in its present guise.

Zippster
Zippster
June 10, 2024 10:42 pm

proportional? you mean kill, rape and loot you way through gaza like hamas tried.

communists have really shown their true colors over hamas

bunch of fascist terrorist lovers

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
June 11, 2024 10:20 am
Reply to  Zippster

It is a very proportional response to years of intifadas into Israel, the squandering of o/s and UN development money on tunnels as warfare infrastructure, and bringing up a generation of martyrs ready to die against Israel, plus Hamas’ declared certainty of delivering more 7/10 style border attacks. Let them reap what they have sown.

Beertruk
June 10, 2024 10:55 pm

Hamas has had its day of reckoning over the violent October 7 attacks,

Hamarses day of reckoning will only come when it has been exterminated.

The question is, has its response been proportional?

‘Proportional’ to what? Idiot has NFI.
The Allies didn’t stop after storming the beaches at Normandy.
They prosecuted the war right to the end.
Sadly Marshal of the RAF Sir Arthur Harris, General Curtis Lemay, Air Vice Marshal Donald Bennett, Col Paul Tibbetts and Maj Charles W Sweeney are unavailable for comment.

Helen
Helen
June 11, 2024 7:35 am

The answer to that is to ask Mr Lyons what is proportional. Should Israel kill the same number of babies and women and grandmas that Hamas did on Oct 7? In the same manner? Is that his idea of proportional?

The thing is, some people are closer to the animal kingdom than others.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 10, 2024 10:32 pm

Sancho – I had a crack at answering your query above. Unsuccessfully I’m afraid.

Zippster
Zippster
June 10, 2024 10:40 pm

WOKE ACTRESS DOESN’T LIKE WHITE FANS – STAR WARS IS A WOKE TURD (THE ACOLYTE)

?How to create a billion dollar franchise? Give some woke karens a 5 billion dollar franchise

the jokes just write themselves…

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 10, 2024 10:42 pm

Bear … a search through SBS on demand will probably work for me.
There was some great footage – albeit a bit disturbing – of Whelan knocking over everything in sight.

Digger
Digger
June 10, 2024 11:10 pm

The two sides’ actions cannot be proportional when you consider they each set out with different goals in mind. Hamas did not aim to eliminate the IDF.

Yes they did. They actually set out to eliminate Israel entirely. Not with their own weapons but with the incessant assistance of the western elite, media and many countries…

Israel’s resolve was too strong and I, for one, support them till the very end. There is no such thing as an innocent Palestinian in Gaza…

shatterzzz
June 11, 2024 8:31 am

Wrong thread .. duuuh!

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