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You mean Ernie Dingo’s con job couldn’t find enough blackfellas to maintain it?
Most indigenous bands appear to have at least one purebred whitey as they don’t even have the numbers to sustain a full band.
There are contests for remembering pi to as many places as possible, some can do to thousands of places.
I did it to 40 places in High School and later 100 in College just as a personal exercise – because it is sequential, it’s easier to recall the first digits than the later, fresher ones, and I found I used patterns in storing the digits that had some symbolic significance.
Computing is our best guide to information processing and I’d go with chemical storage although neurons are quite complex in how they fire, anyway.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.news.com.au/world/europe/massive-explosion-rocks-paris-bakery-after-reported-gas-leak/news-story/ca5752b7a7fb2263bc5c57f6dfaa6006
A Lurker pointed this out yesterday, Paris explosion appears to be a gas leak in a bakery.
Since when? She made that up.
I think you will find a lot more men in prison than women… anyone genuinely concerned about equality would be demanding some kind quota system, because these unequal outcomes can only be caused by unconscious bias.
The Problem with the BBC
Worth 9 min 53 secs to watch
Effect of diet on brain function.
Theories around, from the simple, like feeding kids vegemite from a young age, not sugar, to wire them for savoury and umami not porkasaurusas producing excess carbs and sugar.
To complex, where a herd of pregnant women fed the current western diet of cakes, bikies, slices, treats and no meat, will be statistically more inclined to birthing slow moving, anxious wide and heavy kiddies.
Does fuel govern and influence performance?.
Want compliant and too unfit to riot proles, feed them Soma?.
Comrades?.
Auto-correct suggested today’s pregnant prole posse is more likely to consume bikies than bikkies.
Who am I to argue with Skynet?.
Indeed jupes and particularly for the women – my favourite is Sir Charles Napier who was a Major-General in command of the Indian Army in Bombay and a no-nonsense kinda guy.
Bikies might be more nutritious, but watch the Food Miles.
Global warming in Kansas City today as they take on the red hot Indianapolis Colts. Great deal of snow around the field suggesting it was shovelled off before the commencement of play.
The thing about civilisational decline is it is rarely visible from within. Technology is still moving forward for now, but standard of living has mostly stalled and where it will go once the white populations become ever shrinking minorities is not promising.
Islamic countries initially lived off the efforts of their predecessors for a couple of centuries after the conquest, then lapsed into a developmental stasis from which they have not yet arisen. That might become the fate if the west.
Bikies probably need less cleaning than Greens.
egg_ You rang? Calli. You surmised and alas, not on target.
So why doesn’t Trump push the button on comey, McCabe, stryzok, page the ohrs or any of the other players who we discuss here; even Hillary?
Because who’s going to do it for him: the DoJ with Rosenstein whose intent to secretly and illegally record the POTUS has been confirmed; sessions, a swamper if ever there was one? The GOP has no heart for it and the msm would go ballistic (as opposed to feral).
And what process would be followed: the fbi and the DoJ would have to lay charges; who’s going to do it in those shit-holes with the mueller witch hunt proceeding.
Trump has revealed the corruption within the democratic society in the US, and by inference in every Western nation; but there doesn’t appear to be any solution; except what is beginning in france with yellow vests because how can a completely corrupted system be used to uncorrupt itself.
Been looking at the stats for Japan since it is slightly ahead of the curve in terms of population decline than the west. We can see that Japan is constantly dipping in and out of deflation since its workforce peaked in the late 90s. Japan’s statistic bureau shows that the workforce peaked in the late 90s with over 5% unemployment rate and started declining. Currently the workforce has grown slightly in the last few years but still below the 90s peak, but this “economic miracle” is the result of a 2.5% unemployment rate and herding the elderly and more women into the workforce.
The population predictions show that in the worst case (continuation of current fertility) the population will more than halve by the end of the century, optimistic projections assume that the fertility rate will somehow magically rise at some point.
In a mere 2 decades of population decline the Japanese government has accumulated 200% debt relative to GDP to prevent deflation and there is many more decades of decline to go, quite likely to the end of the century and beyond. The government will go bust long before the end of the century if keeps trying to prevent deflation.
An interesting observation is that the government is doing everything wrong in arresting the population decline. One of the reasons sighted for not having more children is the high costs involved in bringing up kids, yet the government is doing everything in its power to prevent the natural deflation that comes from population decline. It continues to drive more women into the workforce rather than encouraging them to stay at home and raise families.
It’s not too difficult to image what a country will look like with half its population, a massive surplus of housing stock and the obvious effect on prices, halving of government revenues with a huge increase in expenses looking after the elderly during the decline (currently about 25% of Japan’s population is over 65, by 2050 over 40% will be over 65), half the number of scientists and other smart people. halving the rate of innovation and progress. etc etc
Government should be focused on managing the decline and allow prices to fall naturally rather than heading towards Keynesian induced bankruptcy by trying to “revive” or “kickstart” the economy, preventing deflation etc, There are only so many extras in the population that can be herded into the workforce to stall deflating GDP. Mass importation of 3rd world peasantry is also starting to be on the cards with its obvious consequences for Japan’s culture.
Watched “Watchmen” tonight.
I realise that IT is Rorschach.
We should not enrage him.
He’s a p®ssy.
There is only one Rorschach.
And it’s a Woman.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
To quote Alan Moore: “None of you understand. I’m not locked up in here with YOU. You’re locked up in here with ME.”
Days spent shaming a succession of people into spending a fortune on dogs and cats must take its toll.
While the CIA deliberately targets anyone perceived to be a threat with dirty tricks and manufactured evidence.
And boy, did he smarten up the place. I’ve really enjoyed the last 48hrs’ comments. Very thought provoking.
Ahem.
Glad to see everyone followed my advice.
Thanks guys.
Stimpson J. Cat
#2905527, posted on January 12, 2019 at 4:31 pm
Can’t we just have one day where Catallaxy is like this?
Can’t remember the actual word, but he announced his conquest of the Sindh, in a one word dispatch to London – the Latin word for “I have sinned (Sindh.)”
The best I an do is three numbers at a time.
Fortunately that vid only runs for six seconds. Who wants to watch a dog/cat sex tape?
Sunday, January 13, 2019 – Baptism of the Lord
I viewed those little videos yesterday Stimpson. The first one is beautiful. Hope it’s real.
04 and one other?
Dr Ed Berry who has shown human CO2 is not responsible for the increase in atmospheric CO2 has a day out at the AMS conference:
From now on, every time that IT starts ranting about artisans and localism, I want you picture him looking like this.
Just try it.
Propaganda About Border in Play, Mostly from Mainstream Media
I think the contrast were seeing is the result of expanding universities to cater for the stupid. The top students generally perform well beyond university, while the 30-70%ers that traditionally never went to uni are predictably wasting their time.
Just like we always knew.
I don’t get the panic over population decline most of it is due technology but that doesn’t dismiss the cultural and governmental disincentives going on you point out.
HEARTLESS: PELOSI REFUSES TO MEET WITH FAMILIES OF VICTIMS KILLED BY ILLEGAL ALIENS
Speaker of the House won’t acknowledge suffering caused by illegal immigration
https://www.infowars.com/heartless-pelosi-refuses-to-meet-with-families-of-victims-killed-by-illegal-aliens/
The Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun “very brave new Canadian” story worries me.
She overthrew many months of planning by helpful “sisters” by staying in Bangkok for an extra day to breath the air of freedom, in direct opposition to all she was being told to do.
Then she ditches Australia where most of her advice, practical help, and funding came from in favour of Canada.
Perhaps she’s just an entitled young miss whose personal preferences take priority over everybody else and that’s all.
Perhaps she is gaming the system.
I spent Xmas with family, the young ones: 2 doctors going into specialisation, a nutritionist, a financial expert, an IT whiz(who set up this new fantastic rig for me), and on this blog I read about how stupid and hopeless the younger gens are.
I hope they corrected you on your spelling of Christmas.
Make sure they are raised right please.
I spent Xmas with family, the young ones: 2 doctors going into specialisation, a nutritionist, a financial expert, an IT whiz(who set up this new fantastic rig for me), and on this blog I read about how stupid and hopeless the younger gens are.
I hope they corrected you on your sp©lling of Christmas.
Make sure they are raised right please.
The best of summaries.
Lurv it.
You could replace “Republican Party in 2020” with “Liberal Party in 2022”. (Too late for 2019)
Who else thinks it’s hilarious that we are on “Australia’s leading libertarian and centre right blog”,
yet we can’t even use the letters of the noble English language to sp©ll the word “sp©ll” correctly?
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!
yep 🙁
Learn and defend climate truth, which is human CO2 emissions make no essential difference to atmospheric CO2 and atmospheric CO2 makes no essential difference to global warming.
A sentence to remember.
A litany.
They don’t like drugs or gay marriage, and they HATE tattoos: Is ‘Generation Z’ the most conservative since WW2?
Why Democrats Should Be Losing Sleep Over Generation Z
Indeed – I would have thought someone fleeing the prospect of an honor killing would have got to Australia and be united with her support group, as quickly as possible, before making any decision. She could have breathed all “the air of freedom” in Australia, without fear of being put on the next plane back to Kuwait. Having said that, I have no doubt there will be a hefty bill to guarantee her security – if she keeps her mouth shut on Twitter – and the Canadians are welcome to pay that bill.
Trump should use his powers as Commander in Chief to rename the Pentagon and call it “The Department of De Fence”.
Then tell them to get on with building that wall. 😉
James Comey
@Comey
“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.” — FDR
11:06 PM · Jan 12, 2019
“As the church prepares for the Pope’s global summit on sex abuse next month, it’s reasonable to ask where he has been on the issue since he was installed in 2013.
There are many words of condemnation in the papal library but the Vatican has taken a very long time to understand that the abuse crisis is so vast the faith is being blown up in the West.
The Vatican’s response has been ambiguous at best, slow and disruptive at worst. Pope Francis’s further challenge is that while the West is alive to the abuse, with the church’s mission crumbling in front of its bishops, there is little doubt that the scourge has infected Africa and Asia as well. This means the global scandal is going nowhere and has many, many years to run.”
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/strong-words-at-last-but-can-the-pope-save-the-church/news-story/904f3dfcb982cb68fa635af4dad9aea9
Can’t get to the post-abuse stage without cleaning out the abuse in Africa and Asia. The cover-ups are the killers.
It what happens when a religion becomes untouchable, John and we are making the same mistakes again.
Holy Sh$t JC get in here!!!!
Heh:
Women’s rights group that organised Saudi teen’s escape “devastated” she’s gone to Canada.
“She was our refugee”.
Don’t worry girls, there’s plenty more fish in the see.
It’s easy to remember more numbers once you look for the pattern in the seemingly randomness of the arrangement.
Yes because their entire modus operandi was about empty virtue-signalling.
From cohenite’s Dr Ed Berry link:
The problem in a nutshell.
Follow the money.
Odd isn’t it? You’d think they’d be delighted that she’s found freedom in Canada.
Manipulative so and so’s. They obviously wanted to bask in reflected attention.
All Men can relate to this eternal struggle.
Yes, Calli and notice that none of them were clamouring for Asia Bibi’s freedom and asylum.
The Vatican’s response has been ambiguous at best, slow and disruptive at worst.
That’s because Francis is part of the problem.
The smoke of Satan is inside the Temple.
You mean she’s behaving like a typical teenager?
That’s at least promising.
Interesting Stats Here.
The “Nothing in Particular” and “Something Else” categories are particularly enlightening.
Yes because their entire modus operandi was about empty virtue-signalling.
But this women’s group will be all over condemning the elevation of Yemen to take a senior role on women’s rights at the UN. The same Yemen that ranks last in all matters in the treatment of women? Right?
Lab Severs Ties With James Watson, Citing ‘Unsubstantiated and Reckless’ Remarks.
…none of them were clamouring for Asia Bibi’s freedom and asylum.
Poor Asia is not part of the sisterhood.
Meanwhile, she and her family are hunted from one safe house to another in Pakistan.
Did you know that a woman on top (cowgirl position) can make a man turn gay?
Climate j’ism?
Hahaha
– FDR, 1933
But it is warm snow.
That’s what makes it the hottest year evah.
And given our local media’s slavish devotion to SHY and Labor you will never hear of what efforts and blandishments the Canadians might have been offering!
(Whatever those might have been I’m sure winter was not mentioned.)
ABC- aircons cause globule warmening!
Hahaha.
– FDR, 1933
NYC: Giant sculpture proclaiming “There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet” goes up at Ground Zero.
Geriatric Mayfly
#2905898, posted on January 13, 2019 at 9:11 am
Welcome back – been on a WEB?
Teh carpet munchers’ red carpet?
‘Israel has never been so divisive in modern political history’ — anti-BDS bill fails again in Senate
Who does Comey think he is? Benedict Arnold?
From the Oz.
Australia is soon to become uninhabitable due to Climate Cringe.
Why would you want to come here?
Tiny House Designed To Be Elderly / Disability / Mobility Friendly
Sarah Sea Patrol should have sent her a Sea Patrol hoodie!
Fair comment, but I’m just hoping that the next girl trying to flee their Third World shytehole doesn’t end up kidnapped and returned to whatever fate, because the Saudi’s aren’t going to be made fools of by a mere woman, yet again.
Not brainwashed by the West, yet?
Australian disappointment. Explained.
According to Flim Flannery, Perth became a desolate ghost city in 2015.
The ABC thinks this is an arch, critical headline:
There’ve been a lot of US government shutdowns — but Trump has beaten them all.
Arguably Sydney’s most popular attraction for Asians, Open Borders proponents, the Greens are protesting its redevelopment because flats will be built. The real truth is that Greens don’t mind flats in Western Sydney, outside the goats cheese curtain, so long as roads aren’t built to bring the rodents who live there through their areas.
I am going to have a polony and sauce sandwich and a cream soda today.
The return to righteousness begins with small steps.
Threatening lawfully engaged workers with a gun is bad when you’re a white grazier and an inspector is investigating your land clearance. Sometimes, though, threatening to shoot workers is totally cool.
ABC Online: Red dust and cocked rifles: One man’s endless beef deep in Territory cattle country.
Raffish!
The teenager was tired and preferred not to take questions but she had wanted to come out and say hello to Canadians, Ms Freeland added.
“Look who we have here!”
The Saudi-Canada relationship has been particularly testy lately, in part because of Canadian criticism over women’s rights in SA. Is she now to be the poster girl for that campaign? Better to let her slip quietly into normal life.
Don’t forget to nick one of mum’s Rothmans.
Zulu the word was peccavi – latin for I have sinned
Seems topical.
I have a full season of Hey, Hey, It’s Saturday on Betamax if that helps the nostalgia trip.
ABC Online refusing to cover superhero Kickass Howard’s exploits.
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I’m kind of surprised that he doesn’t still have close personal protection.
His daily constitutional makes him an easy target.
+1
Gamed the Frightbats, nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.
I had a can of Passiona in KL the other day.
Just back from Church (Feast of Christ’s Baptism) and the poor old bugger of a Dominican priest spent the first ten minutes of the sermon as a straight secular lecture on global warming. One ill-digested falsehood after another, and we just had to sit there in the pews and take it. Including the most recent canards about the Great Ocean Road being washed away. For light relief, he branched out into pouring bile on Rupert Murdoch, the Australian and the Heartland Institute (which latter I’m sure none of his congregation except me have ever even heard of). Then he wound up with an equally long lecture on the poor Uighur muslims being persecuted by the Chinese. Deeply tempted to write to the Archibishop about this.
Ozzy Ostrich: Are you blowing your own trumpet, IT?
IT: I would if I could.
As is drink driving and possessing an illegal firearm. Apparently.
Thanks Tinta – I ‘ve often thought it one of the better puns I have ever heard.
I am going to have a polony and sauce sandwich and a cream soda today.
Polony? Oh, you mean Devon.
On starchy white bread?
Devon? You mean fritz?
Even the most basic of comedies from the 1990s would be banned now.
Real localist men drink Bundaberg-made Horehound.
bespoke
#2905970, posted on January 13, 2019 at 11:01 am
SHY?
Afraid to click.
Would the ABC be quite this lenient for anyone they didn’t like who had this many travellers?
Meh. So much ruminating among you old people.
A Saudi embassy official intercepted the girl on arrival at Bangkok Airport and tried to take her passport. That ended any chance of continuing to Australia on another flight. Everything changed for her at that point because the Thais would have no qualms about acceding to Saudi wishes to send her back in their custody. Doesn’t matter who the Oz says was trying to help her, the right thing to do was get on social media and alert the world to her emergency (as others under threat before her have done). UNHCR quickly considered her case, but the Australian government procrastinated (big surprise), so the Canadians stepped in and accepted her as a refugee.
I am going to have a polony and sauce sandwich and a cream soda today.
The return to righteousness begins with small steps.
Enjoy White bread while you can.
Soon it will be banned and there will only be Multigrain.
HHIS was at its peak with Jackie McDonald as the ditz.
She was brilliant in the role, a master of the self set-up and double entendre.
Very smart lady apparently and very cute!
Paul Hogan makes a truly righteous sandwich.
Jackie McDonald highlights clip here.
Hey Hey and League Teams were the two funniest shows I’ve ever watched. There were more real laughs in five minutes of either than in an entire year’s output of ABC ‘comedy’. An Italian mate of mine who had babes hanging off him confessed to me that he thought Jackie McDonald was the most beautiful woman he’d ever seen.
I think I see your problem . . .
In Canada
Meanwhile in India
Remember how fancy polony bought from the deli section would seem? That was only for special occasions. Your every day polony was one of those logs you kept in the fridge and the end would go horrendously discoloured and hard.
But you know what my favourite thing in the world to eat as a kid was? Scabs.
Call me weird but there was nothing better than picking a knee scab and admiring the hole in your knee and wondering what all that white stuff was and then chowing down on the scab. There must be a biological reason for it, but every kid I knew ate their scabs too, although most denied it. Of course it was a real delicacy and you had to made sure you weren’t putting to big a piece in your mouth – that’s disgusting.
As is having possession of a firearm while under the influence. Apparently.
From The Daily Mail version of Howard saves the day it seems that the woman in the altercation was breaching an apprehended violence order and the man was sent to a mental hospital as a precaution.
Forget the rest. I want this fella to win in 2020. How cool would that be?
When I was a kid every boy in the class had school sores, scabs and the ever-present gravel rash.
That’s why we weren’t allergic to everything. We were constantly at war with germs and we won.
The advice for her must be that Australia is much more dangerous for her than Canada.
The ugly story of how a pakistani man who escaped blasphemy charges and fled to pakistan and was then stalked, prosecuted and persecuted by the Victorian Human Rights mafia for…blasphemy, alone, should have been enough.
Any person interested in her actual welfare would have to say that Australia, its ruling class and so its authorites, are very, very sympathetic to fundamental islam and it couldn’t be assured they would protect her from the far more malignent muslim “community” that thrives here than does in Canada.
JC’s busy watching Marie Kondo on Netflix, he doesn’t need a robot.
Fled…from…
Ditto for masturbation.
To change the mood a little, I recently received a flier from a Victorian regional commercial art gallery that has a pretty solid reputation when it comes to exhibiting quality contemporary Australian art.
The flier advertises an exhibition by one Gus Leunig. There are no prizes for guessing who his dad is, but it isn’t, in any case, necessary to guess, because the flier makes it clear.
Here are some examples of Gus’s oeuvre.
http://gusleunig.com/Painter/Gallery.html
I don’t think it’s very good. Stylised ‘whimsical’ faux-peasant folk art, well below the level of freshness, innovation and technical excellence that I would normally expect from the gallery. But I guess the Leunig name opens doors.
It is, of course, possible that Leunig Snr gave his son no help at all in getting established, but it’s unlikely. ‘Progressives’ – Leunig Snr is an avowed socialist – tend to ignore principles of equality and level playing fields when it comes to their own kiddies.
The Leunig exhibition may, never the less, make commercial sense. Plenty of boomers would buy Gus’s stuff to suck unto his dad.
I never ate that. That’s weird.
No I promise 🙂
Yes. In 1 revealing tweet where she actually did respond to somebody else she basically stated she could do what she wanted. I don’t blame her in one way of having a rather distorted view of life in the Western world but freedom is not just freedom from, it is also freedom for. Me thinks she will be very much freedom for me me me. Also she’s going to get a huge shock with Canada’s anti free speech laws – enforced wacko gender pronouns and all – but hey as long as she is safe I’m happy for her and happy for us.
the woman in the altercation was breaching an apprehended violence order and the man was sent to a mental hospital as a precaution.
Someone explain this to me.
A Woman breaks the law and attacks a man and he is sent to the nuthouse?
Do I have it right?
What’s polony?
Touche, IT.
The author Idries Shah had this to say in an exchange about Western culture:
We just have look around us today at the pervasive irrationality around climate and gender, to take just two of the most egregious examples, to see the relevance of this observation.
Devon is okay. Nice with cheese on sandwich with pickles. You don’t want to get too fussy about food.
Oh my god that is the first I have heard of eating your own scabs. That’s up there with Kevin Rudd and ear wax. God how disgusting.
Stimpson, another report said that as the bird had breached the AVO, she was arrested & there’s a hearing on Tuesday.
So looks like the bird was the violent party.
You have it exactly right, Stimpson.
Holy fuck, IT at 11.40am. Way too much information.
Progressives’ tend to ignore principles of equality and level playing fields when it comes to their own kiddies.
A very prominent progressive politician in the 1970s once rang and harassed my aunt – then a Melbourne based executive in a privately owned company with a national profile – after she failed to employ his daughter. He knew her employer and would have her sacked, he said. She resisted and the owner sided with her.
Summer hasn’t really even hit here. Grass is still green. Everyone saying how mild it’s been so far.
Just an excuse to ramp up some maintenance work at the desal plant for the Bruvvas?
You have it exactly right, Stimpson.
You aren’t the first Woman to say that to me and you won’t be the last.
Thank you None.
😁
Canda is less bad than Australia on all those fronts.
Being little brother to the US it hs much more american style public out and loud discourse about these things.
For instance Canada has an actual proper conservative apparatus which actually wins elections and cultural battles.
We have catallaxyfiles and andrew bolt.
Hang on, so John Howard intervenes in a domestic violence event concerning a woman against a man?
There is NO way that’s going to get media traction.
In somewhat of a bind. Cowboys v Rams, Spurs v Thunder in NBA, golf from Hawaii or the remainder of Fellowship Of The Ring. Plus cricket triple header.
I mean I wouldn’t mind if it was me getting taken to the nuthouse, but this was probably some innocent male sane victim of domestic violence dwarf that Little Johnny beat into submission with his walking stick.
Also, Simpson, if the chap was saying he was going to self-harm, the cops are obligated to schedule him.
Considering the reports, it sounds like:
the guy got an ADVO against the bird;
the bird breached the ADVO;
the cops arrested the bird;
the guy’s clearly struggling & the cops scheduled him.
Probably not the best thought out headline…..
Bogan Strasburg.
Western culture, like any other culture, could well take to heart this ancient Eastern saying: ‘However useful a garment, it is not for eating.’
Unlike, say…scabs.
Wow. Apparently eating scabs is a mental disorder.
I might be crazy.
Thanks for that enlightening piece of information, Stimpson. That’s up there with eating scabs. Clearly it’s that kind of blog. #emetic
If they are the two best examples, then abandon hope all ye who enter here.
Check out the pictures. Does anyone see some common characteristics?
Independent MP Cathy McGowan’s successor, Helen Haines, chosen by Voices 4 Indi
After five hours of deliberations, Voices 4 Indi chose nurse and public heath researcher Helen Haines as the person to succeed Ms McGowan, who won the seat from the Liberal Party in 2013, and is the current face of the group.
Was there ever any doubt?
It’s the main reason we all like you so much.
Thanks for that enlightening piece of information, Stimpson.
You’re welcome None.
Educating and informing Women is what I do.
What’s polony?
Bogan Strasburg.
I thought fancy polony was making fun of Nancy Pelosi.
Wow. Apparently eating scabs is a mental disorder.
I might be crazy.
Yes, it’s a recognised disorder, I’m afraid.
Not to worry, I.T., you’re among friends here and we may be able to help.
Now, tell me, as a child were you often anxious?
How did you get on with your father?
Advice: Don’t cheat on these women if you are either married or in a relationship with them.
Scab eaters become wine connieseurs 🍷
Look at it this way IT.
I would much rather kids eat scabs than dirt.
I’ve seen the results of kids that eat dirt and it’s not good.
might?
IT do long as you don’t start falling over on purpose to create scabs to eat you should be OK.
Try tripping parking inspectors instead.
Doh!
How else could it have happened so fast?
Pensiles tasted better scabs.
True.
I’ve replaced knee scabs with Cabernet.
SBS were running a story about Rohinga muslim refugees in Australia, who had been caught by a fake visa scam when travelling from Australia to visit Bangladesh. Not one word about the fact that ‘refugees’ fleeing for their lives feel free to roam the world once they’ve established their Centrelink accounts in Australia.
Then there was the indigenous lady filmed taking her four-year-old for a ride on the top of her SUV. Mother of six, no husband or father in evidence. Yet she can run an SUV.
Not connoisseurs, but definitely snobs.
IT loathes sauvignon blanc because it doesn’t cost enough.
the unhcr cap, Canada hoodie-not a bit of hair in sight – Adidas bag, strange infidel women man handing her. I think as the reality of what she has done sinks in her bravura might shrink a bit. At least she has some contacts in Tor onto as it’s going to be a very lonely existence. Plus there will not be an endless supply of money on tap. Oh my god she might actually have to work. Does she even know what that means?
IT
Do you really need to have a personal relationship with your supplier that much that you eat your own scabs?
Have you got a personal relationship with the Polony man and the soft drink rep?
And no, no kids I ever knew ate their own scabs, ever.
Is it an Asian thing?
I love the way the media always refers to Williamson as a formee HSU boss and not to the fact that he was on the ALP national executive until just before he was nabbed and that he served on that executive with Julia Gillard and Anna Bligh.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews Sanctions Mass Brolga Slaughter by Approving Dundonnell Wind Farm
All of the new wind farms going up in South West Vic are smack in the middle of brolga territory, apparently, including the just approved Gold Plains above.
Best Buds.
The Texan will be one of the youngest candidates in the Democratic presidential field and the first major Latino contender.
When 44-year-old Julián Castro officially launched his presidential campaign Saturday, he became one of the youngest candidates in the prospective 2020 Democratic field — and the first major Latino candidate.
You know that is not true.
And it tastes like a kids drink.
It is not good for man to work alone . You might consider a change of career. You know, to one that might offer the possibility of clients.
It is not good for man to work alone . You might consider a change of career. You know, to one that might offer the possibility of clients.
Stick to Bigtime Corporate advice.
It suits you better.
You can’t blame the young girl, I would have picked Canada in a heart beat over this dump.
We are as in a bad a political situation as they are, just our PM is more of a bullshit artist, and the country is right next door to the states, with no wall.
I think the above commenters are correct when saying that the Australian organisers of this are miffed because like typical women, it was all about virtue signalling.
But there’s also an ignorance by these types who most would be on the government teat as to just how desirable Australia isn’t anymore.
As mentioned the other day, my Melbourne suburban lawn is still largely green. Shall probably turn yellow this week, with a string of 30°C plus days forecast. A sweltering summer it has not been.
I’ll counter that story with this one:
America’s Youngest Black Legislator Caleb Hanna: Pro-Life, Pro-God, and Pro-Wall
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/12/americas-youngest-black-legislator-caleb-hanna-pro-life-pro-god-and-pro-wall/
ooh ooh ooh, can I answer this one stimps?
Yes?
Ok.
Listen here , back in the kitchen with you young lady.
Women should be seen and not heard.
Oh hang on
Mrs Struth just told me off.
Continue none, please.
Since we’re into a bit of nostalgia, does anyone remember flavoured drinking straws? Paper straws lined with chocolate or strawberry something through which you drank milk.
Senator Elizabeth “Lialotta” Warren was first;
then came Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard;
now comes number three: former HUD Secretary Julian Castro.
the conservativetreehouse
What’s Flim Flammery’s view on Vic’s brolga culling?
Suddenly my scab eating doesn’t seem so crazy.
*As close as 700 m in the Golden Plains EES – what a crock, Hunchback.
Hi-Viz vests for brolgas?
HAD not has.
Canada HAS a Liberal government and Justin Trudeau.
And you’d have been back here in an instance.
You need to try living there for a few years.
instance = instant!
Be fair to the smuggling ring. None of them have actually come out and said we missed that the Saudi girl didn’t come to Australia but only some johnny-come-lately journalists like Ann Summers wanting to bash our border control. Once a person has been deemed a refugee by the UNHCR ( which can take years in some cases) it usually takes Auzyralia about 15 months to conduct all the necessary security and background checks before considering a person for resettlement. Now just imagine what sort of checks and thought went into this. As one Canadian Diplomat noted this sets are hugely bad president and one that can actually be very detrimental to Saudi women. It may be for example be that Saudi women will now be prevented from travelling alone to the few countries where they have been allowed to go unaccompanied, like Kuwait.
Yeah sorry about this phone’s crazy autocorrect. It may be time to upgrade.
Borrowing to build One Road, One Belt, One Way windmills on top of our brolga nests Is Our Strength.
We paved our brolgas and put up a parking lot.
Comrade Maaaaaates.
Has there ever been a more revolting concoction than “Spearmint Milk”?
How the hell do people drink that?
Now now. I have never claimed to offer Big Time corporate advice just shared some of my experience in corporate opium in the past. Don’t get tetchy.
Egg Flip Big M was pretty ordinary.
Ranger Uranium Mine to close by 2021. NT EDO and abo activists are rubbing their arse cheeks. Still plenty of uranium there so I guess the mining permits could not be renewed. Ranger is the 2nd or 3rd biggest in the world.
This country is a shit-hole.
Zulu at 0941
Can’t remember the actual word, but he announced his conquest of the Sindh, in a one word dispatch to London – the Latin word for “I have sinned (Sindh.)”
Might have already been posted, the word is “Peccavi”.
Asks the man who eats his own scabs #dryretch
As mentioned the other day, my Melbourne suburban lawn is still largely green. Shall probably turn yellow this week, with a string of 30°C plus days forecast. A sweltering summer it has not been.
You’re in sea breeze territory.
It’s been hot North of the Divide but not unusually so. This week might try us out.
The extra heat inland will give you soft coastal types a nice few days of high twenties or low thirties as the heat creates a steep temperature differential that drags ocean air inland.
The wind swings gusty Northerly on Tuesday-Wednesday, that will defeat the sea effect. Lawn cooking weather.
As President Trump’s former attorney John Dowd said Saturday: “The (New York) Times story is an unwitting disclosure and verification of the utter corruption of their oaths by (fired FBI Director James) Comey and his colleagues to undermine the free election of the President of the United States. It was apparently done under the supervision of the Deputy Attorney General, who was reportedly ready to wear a wire to ensnare President Trump. This is the stuff of banana republics and dictatorships. This despicable, unlawful, official conduct undermines our entire federal criminal justice system which protects our liberty as a free people.”
To be accurate, I ate my scabs when I was a child. Like all normal kids did.
Don’t get tetchy.
I thank you and compliment you and now I’m tetchy?
I know you are there.
Stop trying to get me to notice you.
I’m not interested.
I’m sure you are a lovely Woman and all but it’s not you it’s me.
😁
Yum, Maccas in Massachusetts have a spearmint thickshake called a shamrock.
Spearmint milkshake with double malt.
Yum!
Speaking of weather, there’s some good oil over at Watts Up With That.
SA wind and solar folly.
Monkton has another jab at the believers.
Measuring sea height by satellite gets the ridicule it deserves.
Nope I wouldn’t come back.
They have it all there for guys like me……It’s horses for courses.
I thought you were committed to saving the nation.
To be accurate, I ate my scabs when I was a child. Like all normal kids did.
Normal kids didn’t eat their scabs IT.
What freak show school did you attend?
Fingers up noses was the usual feast.
Oh well since you insist. In corporate opium your form of compliment would have been seen for what it is and had you sacked.
And “normal” kids don’t masturbate either.
I remember lying about that, as well.
This sounds like some theology debates iv read lately.
looks like faux-indiginie style, reeks of kultural appropriationism
I’m proud to have been an abnormal kid. I think I’ll go off and vomit now.
Committed to saving the nation?
He he.
I’d be outa here faster than you can say it’s hypothetical.
Is that you Barbra Streisand?
Henry Bolte was the last Viktoristan Premier when the Thompson Dam came into being. (The last sizeable water storage constructed)
Population has gone up a little since then.
Population continues to rise.
Does someone have a water consumption versus population graph?
The ALP (being the government in Viktoristan for the next decade) might have to build a dam.
Which itself is faux-colonial. Look if you like the pretty pictures buy them. If you don’t don’t. It’s a business. They’re in it for the money. Get over it.
My apologies.
Normal city kids ate their nice clean Mummy kissed scabs.
The extra flavouring on bush kid scabs probably was a turn off for us.
When infected, it is know as “Cornflakes and Custard”
Anybody retching?
Is
I think that’s the worst thing anyone has ever said to me.
I’d rather be called a scab eater…….
Learn and defend climate truth, which is human CO2 emissions make no essential difference to atmospheric CO2 and atmospheric CO2 makes no essential difference to global warming.
Can we clean this up at least to the level of fart jokes?
Struth, I’m shocked and devastated. You had me convinced.
I had all my hopes and dreams pinned to your latest plans to rebuild the country.
Or was that last week’s plan?
I get confused.
Blue Heaven milkshake.
The marker dye in the penicillin we used to administer to cows with mastitis used to turn the milk exactly that shade of blue.
Over fond childhood memories?
Not likely.
I loved my cornflakes and custard.
Something for IT to watch while eating his polony
Scabs which have been mercurochromed are an essential source of iron in the diet.
Teh good ol’ Oz Cultural Cringe.
mercurochrome versus iodine
Could see from a distance the other day the first turbine of the new subsidy mine being built between Horsham and Warracknabeal.
Big sucker.
Hillary in Hermes: Clinton is spotted wearing yet another massive scarf after earlier photos showed she might be trying to hide a back brace
Oh. Your red scarf matches your eyes.
Our head prefect must be writing English policy about islam:
https://www.facebook.com/dallas.beaufort/posts/10156193036424370
Scab eaters become Shop Stewards.
Degenerates.
Don’t be a scab eater.
Forget its composition.
Changes in our atmosphere make bugger-all difference to global temperatures. Period.
Oh well since you insist. In corporate opium your form of compliment would have been seen for what it is and had you sacked.
If there is anyone else who wants to sack me from a hypothetical job I’ve never had now is the time.
I’m cleaning out my hypothetical desk.
😁
And it’s Berliner Fleischwurst for the true devon connoisseur.
Don’t forget the sauce 🙂 though.
Scab eaters became shop stewards
Nose pickers joined the Labor party.
Just make sure you take all your hypothetical junk with you.
Struth has not yet tried to make a living in Canada.
It’s just as fraught with bureaucratic irrelevancies as Australia plus it is frozen for four months of the year and f*kin’ cold for another four.
Depending where you are is will be f*kin’ hot and/or humid or foggy for the remaining four.
The ruling political party are raging feminists and the so called conservatives are limp dicks like the Australian Liberals.
Note: You cannot transport alcoholic beverages across a provincial boundary!
One among many stupid regulations.
Try taking European nightcrawler earthworms into WA.
Only 50 births a year is not enough to warrant maintaining and staffing a dedicated maternity unit.
Bad luck that the farmer and his wife didn’t plan ahead and had some difficulty with baby number 4. Too bad that he’s now miffed because they have a new chilled beef contract with China and she will take longer than his preferred 2 weeks to get back to work.
Never trust a pixel by it’s cover.
I’d be driving down the road in a Peterbilt with a decent size sleeper before you could say sorry mate, but you’re stuck here.
And not being a Mussie, but a western white man, I am.
So saving the nation is the only option.
I’ve got an arm in a sling at the moment, but as soon as I am better, PM Struth will be fixing a few things around here, I can assure you.
Zero Migration immediately.
A pause until we sort some shit out.
Stick the pricks who made hiviz vests and through “corporatism of sorts” paid off the government to legislate their use by all Aussie slaves.
Abolish every subsidy and regulation supporting renewables, open it up to competition and stand back.
Immediately let people smoke anywhere, drink piss and buy it anywhere, and let those that want smoke free to go to smoke free bars etc as dictated by the market.
Hang all education bureaucrats from the closest tree.
That of course included safe school child abusers.
I better not start this, I’ll not stop.
Tina Phan should have been banned from pursuing a career in nursing or in any medical or para-medical profession which involved access to drugs. The judge was right to call her on her b******* that the penalty is neither adequate punishment nor sufficient deterrent
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/she-was-on-the-right-path-teen-pleads-guilty-to-sneaking-394-pills-into-festival-20190110-p50qkc.html
You do have to wonder what happened to the pile of leftover scabs, everytime the picking process was undertaken to clean out the eye of the shorten penis, so he could take a piss.
Brilliant video, Zippy. Thanks a million.
Short, sharp, and to the point.
Should be compulsory viewing for all kids.
That includes our politicians.
It’s okay, Struth.
We all have our childish fantasies.
And clean out all your hypothetical stinking, rotting lunches from the hypothetical staff fridge.