Belisarius Begging for Alms, Jacques-Louis David, 1781
They did something similar in Spain; shining diesel powered search lights on the solar array.
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Don’t want an EV? You’re not alone, not that you’d know it listening to Labor We gave EVs a go,…
Meme of Elon considering buying MSNBC:
Wow that’s brilliant Winston
Still waiting to hear if https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kash_Patel#Post-government_career gets a guernsey in Trump’s cabinet. Wasn’t he touted not long ago as favourite…
Westerners need to get used to eating offal again.
It’s a modern (post WWII) thing not eating a lot more of the beast.
All this offal commentary is just tripe from people who haven’t the guts – the intestinal fortitude – to try new things, or rehash old things.
I can’t stomach it any more.
Westerners need to get used to eating offal again.
We will again. Can remember mum buying it as a kid because dad’s army JNCO pay barely made ends meet with multiple growing mouths to feed. Lambs liver & kidney was a common dish mum made.
We’ve been spoilt in recent times and IMO western people will turn their nose up at the bugs.
“Westerners need to get used to eating offal again.”
Offal has always been “frugal food” and I love frugal food. I was brought up on frugal food and there was a lot of offal, such things as liver (chicken and calves), tongue, kidneys, chicken feet, stuffed chicken neck. All delicious.
Lamb’s fry and bacon, yum!
A staple when I was growing up.
I get it, its frugal eating.
But it’s also just so good for you.
I think this is one aspect of how humans work that the bug proponents have yet to properly consider.
There is zero chance an entire generation of smashed avo munchers is going to make the jump to dung beetles, let alone anyone born earlier. No staged transition. No gentle introduction.
If I’m not doing it, millions of purple-haired noodle-armed sleeve-tatted baristas and social workers aren’t doing it either.
“I get it, its frugal eating.
But it’s also just so good for you.”
And delicious!
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Quadrant magazine.
King Punishes Harry & Meghan after Vicious Attack on Camilla
NCF Senior Fellow Rafe Heydel-Mankoo joins Nigel Farage on GB News to discuss King Charles’s decision to evict The Duke and Duchess of Sussex out of Frogmore Cottage on the Windsor estate.
I was at a wedding in HK & when the fish dish came out, the locals fought over who got the fish eyes.
Ox tongue is delicious.
Littleproud reckons any Coalition Agreement going into the next Election is dependent of the Liberal Party committing to repeal any Live Export Ban.
That sounds like political sabotage to me, as well as being electorally an extremely
unpopular
Policy.
STFU crotchless. Outside of a few inner city grub and cockroach eaters and antisemites this liar/filth policy has been trialled and proven to be a disaster.
Payne Haas playing tonight for the Broncos.
His mum is in the clink.
Wonder how he’ll go.
From Frogmore to Frogless.
And not just good for you:
Memes.
I was at a wedding in HK & when the fish dish came out, the locals fought over who got the fish eyes.
LOL have you ever seen the barney over the eyes of a pig or other parts of the head by PI’s at a hangi?
I can only imagine similar.
Mate’s Thai wife was bought up on crickets, other bugs and various small mammals caught in the rice paddies. She freely admits she can eat such but now pork is affordable to even subsistence farmers no one wants to unless they have to.
Westerners need to get used to eating offal again.
Why?
It doesn’t keep well, loses all flavour when frozen, and may have dangerous Vitamin A content.
It’s a modern (post WWII) thing not eating a lot more of the beast.
Offal is only 3%, including viscera Fat, of the edible yield from a beef carcase.
Lungs, Hearts, Spleens used to be ground up, cooked, canned and sold as Camp Pie[settle down, SpongeBob and Mr Sulu].
Lambs brains are excellent Baby Food, I was fed them as a baby.
I can’t stomach it any more.
You’ve lost heart, eh, KD, lack the kidney to chow down. And be warned: should you give Cats a dose of spleen, Dover will insist you change your handle to Perry Stalsis.
… this liar/filth policy has been trialled and proven to be a disaster.
Is there any remote, nay, infinitesimal chance that you can point out where and when this “DISASTER” occurred?
Offal porn and Dad Jokes.
Fitting end to another week – time for a stiff hand sanitizer and tonic.
Most people would be concerned at having a suspected paedophile living in their garden. Charles must figure it will still be better than his son and daughter in law.
There is zero chance an entire generation of smashed avo munchers is going to make the jump to dung beetles, let alone anyone born earlier. No staged transition. No gentle introduction.
You’ll be eating it, Joffa.
Those roaches will be marketed as Brokeback Pork, in a rainbow box.
Most people would be concerned at having a suspected paedophile living in their garden.
Prince Andrew is a Flamer.
It runs in the family.
He should change the name to Toadmore Cottage, since the people who live in it are complete toads.
LM is laughing all the way to the White House.
I doubt it, flamerspook.
Not sure how Boeing didn’t end up in court over the B717.
Looks like a total rip-off of the McDonnell Douglas MD80 / MD95.
Kerry Stokes will be pleased. 2mm of rain forecast for Perf next week. Should help sales of Teh Worst which is traditionally held over your head in case of rain.
Not sure how Boeing didn’t end up in court over the B717.
Looks like a total rip-off of the McDonnell Douglas MD80 / MD95.
Oh FFS, it *IS* the DC9/MD80/MD95. Boeing bought McDonnell Douglas in 9995 IIRC and re-branded the aircraft. Some say MacAir took over Boeing with Boeing’s money. The MacAir exec’s wound up running Boeing which was the beginning of Boeing’s fall from grace.
Sorry , 1995.
Yes.
The cocky cage market is steady but not really enough to sustain a city daily.
Bwah ha ha ha.
Come in spinner!
I’m fed up with so much stupidity, lies, and propaganda being promoted as news and current affairs. It is examples like this that give me some hope.
WATCH: Neglectful parents BLAMED for Alice Springs’ crime wave
This is the video Lidia Thorpe DOES NOT want you to see
Volkssturm units.
And it isn’t the first 717.
Is there any remote, nay, infinitesimal chance that you can point out where and when this “DISASTER” occurred?
Here it is crochless. Now you prove you’re not an antisemite, you antisemite dickhead.
One observation (from the inside of both companies) is that the rot had set in long before that.
Hubris and arrogance borne out of having a virtual monopoly pretty much since the beginning of the jet age.
The real downfall was the rise of Airbus and Boeing’s failure to respond. Sitting here in 2023 and blaming management from 1995-2000 is a pathetic cop-out.
For shame! Have you no respect for that esteemed newspaper’s reputation for quality journalism?
Captured fighters of Ukraine in Bahkmut.
The Russians are taking prisoners?
John Kirby Asked Point Blank: How Serious Is China About Sending Lethal Weapons To Russia?
Good to see him making himself useful for a change.
Avi gets around. Great work in Davos, now great work in Alice Springs. Well done Rebel News.
Behold Ayers Rock’s replacement (the NT News):
You still can’t see it from the Alice Springs airport.
Note the capitalisation of ‘Elders’. Like ‘the Pope’.
Okay. But, and in a hint as to motivations:
You know where this is going.
Ready?
Boom. Any tourism is a side hustle from the income streams generated by NT Government funding for said glamping, infrastructure to develop and maintain it along with royalties for the tens of thousands of anticipated tourists travelling to and from Haasts Bluff from Alice over ‘land that was never ceded’.
Exhibit A for this premise is the crocodile-shaped hotel in Jabiru that was handed over to local ‘Elders’ and immediately fell into disrepair, sparked by family-driven disputes to the point where it’s a massive loss. I don’t know whether it’s even open. The Memory Mountain people would be sure to have learned from this, and will demand constant government top-ups as required.
The 20 metre high cross has solar lighting, apparently, and will be switched on at Easter – along with the cash tap for the ‘Elders’.
Hubris and arrogance borne out of having a virtual monopoly pretty much since the beginning of the jet age.
More garbage.
The DC-8 was a great competitor for the 707. In many ways a better aircraft with more stretch potential. See 70 series.
The 737 nearly got cancelled in the late 1960’s as it was having trouble making headway against the DC-9 which Reg Ansett reckoned was an accountant’s dream.
The DC-10 and L-1011 with 3 engines were able to do trans ocean flights where the A300 was not at the time. Boeing did not have “a near monopoly”.
A few weeks back there were vids of Uke teams nabbing males off the streets and throwing them in mini busses as part of their “recruitment” drive.
Dude the rescue dog, after his 11,000km adventure worthy of both a mini-series and a spin-off, is decompressing – dead to the world asleep on his blanket.
But wagging his tail nonetheless. Good dog.
Eyriesays:
March 3, 2023 at 6:55 pm
Ed Case, you say some dumb things but that takes the cake. Weapons grade stupidity.
To which of Richard Cranium’s previous half dozen or so comments are you referring? He’s been pretty low grade all this evening.
Neither side is especially adherent to the Geneva Conventions, but they’ve been doing regular prisoner swaps. Which is a good thing, since it lowers the nastiness quotient.
Now you prove you’re not an antisemite, you antisemite dickhead.
Hang on a flash, Mr Sulu.
T’ other day, you were saying that failure to support israel equals Antisemitism.
Now you’re saying it’s failure to support cruelty to sheep?
Sanchez
I caught a SwissAir DC10 from NYC to Geneva around 1996 or so. It was in the summer. In the summer of the very next year, a SwissAir DC10 NYC to Geneva crashed with everyone aboard deadsky. It’s likely it was the very same plane. FMD.
The suspicion as to why it went down was that SwissAir had introduced personal entertainment screens etc. to passenger seats and the wiring caught fire. FMD.
Richard Cranium
Lambs brains are excellent Baby Food, I was fed them as a baby.
That might explain why you have the brains of a sheep.
Here it is.
Actually it was an MD11 and the crash occurred in 1998.
https://simpleflying.com/swissair-flight-111-crash-aniversary/
Cats – tomorrow night’s Radio Show.
Still stroogling for a theme, but one might be ready if no better concepts are suggested.
I’ve just about run out of genres – Wolfs has many, many more possibilities to choose from.
So let’s hear it for some theme/genre suggestions, I asks ya! 😕
SpongeBob:
Eyrie reckons, as a Furry, he wouldn’t mind a six thousand mile sea voyage below deck in 50 degree heat along with 100,000 sheep overseen by Lascars.
Someone had to say it.
Hi Rabz:
How about music made by people who finked for the FBI, MI6 etc?
I’ll start the ball rolling with Jerome Garcia and Pete Townshend.
I heard an interesting podcast about the war and Putin today.
The podcast concluded that Putin cannot risk negotiating a settlement until the Wagner Group is decimated on the front lines. The reason is that the head of Wagner could make a play for the top job and remove Putin.
The point is that the war will continue until Putin feels the Wagner group has lost enough men to make it too hard to pose a threat.
T’ other day, you were saying that failure to support israel equals Antisemitism.
Now you’re saying it’s failure to support cruelty to sheep?
One would reach that conclusion if one had the brains of a sheep.
Rabz – Got to be Brit pop.
Pulp’s Steve Mackey dies aged 56 after months in hospital, band remember ‘beloved friend’ (2 Mar)
It’s sad to lose all these talented musicians, especially when they’re younger than I am.
T’
What a wanker you are crotchless.
Again? I’ve never had the misfortune to chow down on it in my existence.
“Let’s hoe into some offal” said no semi conscious western personage, evah …
BoN – Party Hard
“I used to try very hard to make friends with every womanage on this planet, I tells ya …”
Europeans do and love the crap. Americans and Australians refuse to eat it and for good reason too. It’s disgusting.
You’ve been told before Tom. No such thing as acting captain. Smith was captain for the Test.
JC, the only offal in widespread (cultural) availability in this country would be kidney.
Usually presented in what KD might refer to as a “Rat Coffin”.
Ah, yes.
Ansett.
Another aviation company destroyed from within, but keen to blame anyone but themselves.
The Fat, Dumb and Happy days of Australian aviation.
The only time the temperature on those decks reaches fifty degrees, is when those lascars take a bribe from the animal liberationists to turn off the ventilation, so they have footage of thirsty sheep.
They did used to feature images of dead and distressed lambs, until it was pointed out that ewes aren’t sent on the live trade, let alone ewes in lamb, or with lambs at foot.
Just a thought, I might consider visiting Ayers Rock if it had a 200m Jesus the redeemer statue on top of it.
Cats, to paraphrase Paul Walleee, that’s another “long hot summer” that’s just passed me by.
All those grand plans, dashed by circumstances beyond my control, again.
Thanks, la Nina! 😕
The time is right.
Hillbilly Jugband music 1945-1960.
“Still stroogling for a theme, but one might be ready if no better concepts are suggested.
I’ve just about run out of genres – Wolfs has many, many more possibilities to choose from.”
What about folk music Rabzy?
Hollywood soundtracks? I’ve been singing songs from the Sound of Music all week.
No way!
If you want that sort of thing, start your own music blog, Momma Cassie!
What next?
John Freakin’ Denver?
He may have had the (c) next to his name on the team sheet, but the Peter Garrett impersonator Cheaty McSnivel (overcoming the low bar of Cummins) can only ever be described as a stand-in.
When he was captain it was a mini-Golden Age where a combination of top-order form and a series of destabilised oppositions made him look far better than he was. Indore was the pitch, which backfired on the Indians as well as the GOAT who had two backups, instead of one or none.
Roky Erickson & The Black Angels – You’re Gonna Miss Me.
Apparently in the early days the the tenor of the jug depended upon how much dope they had left in the bottom of it.
Claymores, backed up by crew served weapons?
Do you think 40mm Bofors is big enough? High quality steel, scrubs up ok even after 70 years sitting out the front of an RSL.
Some naughty boys in Sydney got in trouble for buying an old patrol boat and then giving the bofors a scrub up to the point of functioning. Naturally the NSW Waterway Nazi’s took great offence at this, charged them, confiscated it, and then mounted it out the front of their HQ. Legalised theft.
A mate in Saipan has a small Japanese anti tank gun. Same deal. The bloody thing still has rifling and a functioning breech block despite 70 years in the tropical jungle. The carriage is a bit worse for wear. Recovery and refurb was actually a high school metal shop project.
What next?
John Freakin’ Denver?
What’s wrong with a bit of air crash investigation?! 🙂
No argument about the demise of Ansett but I was referring to the low operating costs of the DC9 and variants. The 737 was very nearly a failed program for Boeing in the late 1960’s.
Just a thought, I might consider visiting Ayers Rock if it had a 200m Jesus the redeemer statue on top of it.
Sounds like a cat project to me! 100 M50 chemset bolts sound about right?
Back in Maldives.
Accidentally bumped into about four levels up in CCP management at the inter airport show.
Should help get some things moving!
You would need to get Opus Dei to run the gift shop of the cable car station. Zip lines for the adventure minded too might be a winner.
Not quite bottom of the barrel time, Cats. Although soundtracks were essayed quite recently.
Still considering a folk night, Cass. That legendary footage of the Dylan going electric in 1965 with a Stratocaster before being denounced by a collectivist hippie (BIRM) at the Newport Folk Festival remains a seminal moment in Rock ‘n’ Roll History.
“How dare you harness electrickery!”
And I was talking about the arrogance of Boeing execs in the ’90’s.
They grew up on myths like they “bet the company on the 747” and developed a level of hubris that was the cultural root of their recent woes.
Nothing to do with MD, which has become a convenient scape-goat for every cock up since.
Funny thing is, when they really did bet the company on an aircraft design (737 Max), no-one seems to want to own that one.
“Still considering a folk night, Cass. That legendary footage of the Dylan going electric in 1965 with a Stratocaster before being denounced by a collectivist hippie (BIRM) at the Newport Folk Festival remains a seminal moment in Rock ‘n’ Roll History.”
Rabzy, what about a Leonard Cohen night? He’s one of my all time favourites.
Hopes dashed again.
Not good jug, Frank.
Bad jug.
Jerome Garcia and the Lesh discover that “it isn’t right, is it”?
Pedro Townshend – “I always wanted to be matched with her … “
Just looked it up.
25 years since he bought the farm.
Cassie, Leonard Cohen live in London CD. Not too bloody bad, eh?
Mate’s Thai wife was bought up on crickets, other bugs and various small mammals caught in the rice paddies.Have been fed mice in Vietnam.
Didtn like it much, reminded me of pieon too much, greasy meat.
Still rolling over at night experiencing the jagged edges digging into the rib cage. 🙁
Now you remind me very much
Of someone that I used to know
We used to take turns at crying all night
Oh but that was so long ago …
IndyTeal Monique ‘Put your masks on!’ Ryan in the Hun:
Suuure it was.
Funny stuff. Obviously a pisstake. Everyone clowns around during the process of sacking their staff.
I assume.
Bruce of Newc, there was a great little shop in a laneway off Bolton St where they made heavenly liver n bacon rolls for the lunchtime crowd.
It was my staple in 1994-97 whilst a temporary Novocastrian.
Who was arguing this?
What about a mass extinction event brought about by an entirely unexpected meteor strike?
What were his learnings from this journey?
Wow!
She’s the Real Teal.
Your “leaders”, people.
There is a reason for the existence of the concept known as “HOP Time™”.
““You don’t understand, I need to be the best, this is bigger than Kooyong,”
She sure is “bigger than Kooyong”. Her large physical girth is equalled by her exaggerated hyperbole.
All the Teals are self entitled hypocrites but Ryan is probably the worst, although Daniel isn’t far behind.
Mate’s Thai wife was bought up on crickets, other bugs and various small mammals caught in the rice paddies.
Missus tells Dad about being raised eating farm rats in Thailand. He turns green.
“Dad, that’s not a hard luck story, she loves the bloody things!”
I suspect that before the May election last year, creepy Svengali Simon, being such a good sugar daddy, promised Lard-arse and the other Teals that not only will they hold the balance of power after the election, each one might possibly one day be PM.
Episode 1:
1. Do not try and nuzzle me while I am driving;
2. Do NOT whack the gearstick with a paw when nuzzling refused;
3. You can get along famously with other dogs previously unknown to you and in their own homes;
4. It is possible to chew to bits an unchewable dog bed as a contest with the aforementioned other dogs;
5. Being in the back of the ute whilst passing loaded road trains full of stock is extremely exciting; and
6. It is possible to sleep for hours while listening to Cold Chisel and Def Leppard.
Ooooh.
You’re in trouble, Muriel.
Speaking of Holmes-a-Court, I watched a show on Jonestown last night.
His mother, raised in a strongly left wing house, had difficulty coming to terms with the concept of inherited wealth…
Dr Faustus says: March 3, 2023 at 6:42 pm
Dr Faustus must surely be an English northerner.
You know those northerners.
Can’t walk past a bad traffic accident without picking up some dinner.
And a very good evening to those just arriving on Flight LL101 from Lurkerland.
The angry cat ladies among you are asked to please return the cutlery, and report to the quarantine desk.
Shit.
I am still awake from last weekend. I wonder if I will sleep for a solid 96 hours or so.
“Sancho Panzersays:
March 3, 2023 at 10:48 pm
Speaking of Holmes-a-Court, I watched a show on Jonestown last night.”
What was the show Sancho? There’s a very good book about Jim Jones and Harvey Milk, it’s called “Cult City”, excellent read, and very disturbing.
As for Holmes a Court Jnr, I’ll reserve my words however his late father was a gangster and a crook but the luvvies of the 1980s lurrved Holmes a Court Snr because he and his grotesque wife were lefties and art collectors.
rickw says: March 3, 2023 at 9:52 pm
Ooooh! Did you remember to get an autographed copy of Covid 2.0?
An entirely preventable debacle.
A white collectivist presided over the deaths of 918 people, a significant proportion (i.e. the vast majority) of whom were black.
“The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project”
It all sounds so benign, Cats.
Yet, it was not.
Knuckles I reckon you were the rescue person not the dog. You needed something to care about.
How are they ever going to explain the excess mortality data in Australia?
Dantown a white collectivist who caused the death of over 900 elderly people. Should be summarily executed.
Papa Holmes a Court should have been in the next cell to Alan Bond.
I care about lots of things Ranga – including, but not limited to Collingwood, cricket, poorly cooked smallgoods, little monkeys, the overdue return of the sundress, the son and heir, Little Britain, various nieces and a nephew, Archer reruns and the Wayne Harmes fit-up of 1979.
Dude just happens to be a good dog who behaved much better than expected during a two-month odyssey across this wide brown land.
Gray Connolly describes CPAC as “the Mos Eisley of grift”, LOL.
Opinion in the twitterverse is that De Santis is inculcating an anti-establishment theme and that Republican CPAC smells too establishment-y to the punters.
Never went away, KD. A favoured siren’s preferred summer day wear. Behold her in an especially golden one and everything seemed to be right with the world.
#jaggededges
Dragnetsays:
March 3, 2023 at 10:20 pm
Bruce of Newc, there was a great little shop in a laneway off Bolton St where they made heavenly liver n bacon rolls for the lunchtime crowd.
It was my staple in 1994-97 whilst a temporary Novocastrian.
Dragnet. Liver and bacon is a great combination along with steak and kidney in a pie. Great Winter food on a colder day.
I’m talking about the daily grind Knuckles. Having a creature to care about takes your mind off immediate problems. Now, what’s a collingwood and I hope you haven’t told the Son and Hier that one day the poorly cooked smallgood stand is going to be his. When my no.2 son was 5 he asked when all my junk was going to be his. Now he doesn’t want it. I’m shattered. The good thing is my daughter wants it.
Rabz,
I watched a wonderful show last night, Pavement at the Enmore.
How about a blog dedicated to the electric geetar?
Yeah.
As an extreme right wing male, I’m appalled at the toxic femininity on display in this Ryan v Rugg dispute.
I think that is what is known in the business as a very timely death. Connell too.
Apparently the best thing to do around here is visit the Pueblos Blancos but in the absence of a motor vehicle not an option for me.
I did catch the bus to El Monesterio de la Rabida which is where Chrisopher Columbus negotiated his deal with the Catholic Monarchs and set off on his journey of discovery.
€3.50 includes an audio guide, don’t forget to return it and retrieve your passport.
1492 was a very busy year for Spanish royalty.
It’s well worth a visit and if you have a car, easy to drive to and get parking. Take a picnic, enjoy the view.
You can also catch a ferry to the Grand Canaries from here, 30 to 36 hours, prices from €120.
Strawberries are the main export of the little town on the other side of Rabida, Palos, I really should buy some.
I have the theme for the music night.
Songs which prove you are secure enough in your heterosexuality to actually play them.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IslF_EyhMzg
Or just novelty songs
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lCOgj9_Rcl4
Dr Faustussays:
March 3, 2023 at 8:10 pm
Offal porn and Dad Jokes.
Fitting end to another week – time for a stiff hand sanitizer and tonic.
Steak and Kidney pie, and,
To get a feel for his audience, the lecturer asks “How many people here believe in ghosts?”
About 90 students raise their hands.
“Well, that’s a good start. Out of those who believe in ghosts, do any of you think you have seen a ghost?”
About 40 students raise their hands.
“That’s really good. I’m really glad you take this seriously. Has anyone here ever talked to a ghost?”
About 15 students raise their hand.
“Has anyone here ever touched a ghost?”
Three students raise their hands.
“That’s fantastic. Now let me ask you one question further… have any of you ever made love to a ghost?”
Way in the back, Ahmed raises his hand.
The professor takes off his glasses and says “Son, all the years I’ve been giving this lecture, no one has ever claimed to have made love to a ghost. You’ve got to come up here and tell us about your experience”.
The Middle Eastern student replied with a nod and a grin and began to make his way up to the podium. When he reached the front of the room, the professor asks “So, Ahmed, tell us what it’s like to have sex with a ghost?” Ahmed replied “Shit, from way back there I thought you said goats”.
Justice in Victoriastan, episode eleventy:
His crime was annoying Vicpol. So they put him through the wringer for two and a half years, but never came up with a case.
Note that Lasry is a notoriously leftie judge. For him to do that, it must have been way, way out of line. No consequences for the wrongdoers, though.
Just chewed through all his savings, & those of his family, in legal fees.
Eye-watering penalty imposed. Let’s get back to granny-bashing
His driver Mohinder Singh was jailed for 18 years and six months for ploughing his truck into four police officers
Maybe standing on the side of a busy freeway for more than an hour is a shit idea?