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Joan of Arc would probably be diagnosed with schizophrenia these days . However a poor French half starved peasant girl and at that age probably not reached puberty probably going through teenage angst.
To auction off wool as unmulesed, you have to tick a box to declare mulesing has ceased on your property.
This declaration is audited, I can think of a bloke that ticked the box to see what happened, but his audit was quite unpleasant.
Certain cronies, usually with a sheepstud and in a position to put pressure on their wool agents can get deals with speciality wool end users, where the end-user pays a premium to claim they use unmulesed wool and the sheepstud advertises their rams as worth more. The ram clients don’t get to share the crony wool deal though.
Comrades.
Without a doubt, this remains the best summary of travesty of justice that is the Pell case. Share it far and wide.
The author is spinning furiously to hint that 50% of migrants are from English speaking western countries.
Frankly that’s bullshit.
No wonder he writes for Quadrant.
Your problem here is that the article contains several linked ideas across a number of paragraphs – and this can sometimes be jolly confusing for readers with limited English comprehension.
The author is examining the argument that while, for some, Australia is “an Asian country“, Australia actually has a dominant Western culture that many immigrants assimilate towards. Slight reading in context tells us that, rather than enumerating sources of spoken English, the 50% reference relates to the proportion of new immigrants coming from a ‘Western’ culture.
Hope this helps.
Julie Bishop continues her never-ending Gillardian vagina monologues:
Julie Bishop says politics is ‘lonely’ and ‘isolating’ as a woman.
She doesn’t even have a family.
Diddums.
But wait. She has a solution: women shouldn’t have to show up for work:
Indeed.
Oh nononono
Looks like the Ethiopian crash was a MAX 8 and under similar circumstances to the October Indonesian one.
Hmmm.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6791675/Ethiopian-Airlines-plane-way-Nairobi-crashes-157-people-board.html
157 dead including these.
“As many as 50 delegates are believed to have been on the plane heading to the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi, which begins tomorrow.”
Time you guys all started using Skype or other video conferencing.
D-Day?
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow promises big cuts in domestic spending for 2020 budget
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/wh-economic-adviser-larry-kudlow-promises-big-cuts-in-domestic-spending-for-2020-budget
Hey, did anyone here watch 60 minutes last Sunday? I saw an ad on Youtube referring to ‘damning evidence against Cardinal Pell’. What was this ‘evidence’? Please don’t tell me it was the accusations of ‘Joe’ as related by Last.
If she had a son, it would be just like Trayvon.
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It is a tragedy, but on the other hand these worry worts won’t be making any further contribution to global warming.
AAC australian ag company announces queensl;and flood initial assessment.
the two million acres of company land affected will take 6 to 8 million dollars to fix infrastructure.
worst case cattle deaths fifty thousand head from the eighty odd thousand flooded, with the chance of recovering significant numbers that have wandered.
The dry times impact on the rest of the comany’s stations is estimated at near thirty million for the second half of the year.
Others preferred, unless it gets taken over to be split up.
AAC though has access to capital markets to raise fix up cash. the individual independent stations that were hit like this do not have this fall back safety net.
My reading comprehension skills are sufficient to detect spin when I read it.
Australia is a multicultural country. That’s simply fact.
The immigration statistics, which he skirts around in a crudely deceptive manner, show him up.
Yes, spend less time in Parliament. Two one month sessions every three years ought to do it , barring a war emergency. Members to be physically present the whole time when in session.
Hope they bought their carbon offsets before take-off.
It would be terrible to die in a state of mortal carbon sin, and be condemned forever to Gaia hell.
Their ABC struggling to understand how Celia Hammond managed to pick up Curtin despite “damaging media reports” of her vile personal opinions:
Hard to see why Mz Bishop’s candidate only picked up one vote:
A sexy Miserable Ghost.
There’s some sort of message in there.
calli at 0903
On English speaking in France, once they know you’re an Aussie and not a nob from across the channel, they are quite pleasant. Makes you wonder how appallingly you have to treat the locals to get that visceral reaction.
Oui. First question on hearing broken French: “Anglais?” in a suspicious tone.
On hearing the response “Non, non, Australie” all becomes friendly. (Well, perhaps not in Paris, they are different; maybe Numbers spends all his time there?)
That gender pay gap thingy is a complete mystery.
McStabby is remarkably honest in her self-assessment that the culture of Parliament will be improved considerably by her spending less time there.
Numbers at 0955
Australia is a multicultural country. That’s simply fact.
Indeed it is.
Now we have the joys of African “yoof” running amok in tge streets and invading homes when they are not engaging in intra-cultural brawls, fgm, calls fir J oo s to be murdered and many other multicultural enrichments.
But our cuisine is soooo varied!
Massive “fuck you” to McStabby from the little people.
There is a lesson here for the SFLs (if they choose to heed it) is that the idea that McStabby and the Poodle had tyeir finger on the pulse of their respective states and were vote-harvesting machines might just be bullshit.
Great that those Two are going
Eyrie
#2955478, posted on March 11, 2019 at 9:56 am
Yes, spend less time in Parliament. Two one month sessions every three years ought to do it , barring a war emergency. Members to be physically present the whole time when in session.
Bit hard line.
One month each year, one week for presentation and debate of the Budget, one week for repeal of obsolete laws and regulations, one week to discuse constituen ts’ grievances, the final week for general business.
Good Moaning.
Australia is a capitalist western Christian country.
This is anathema to numbers and his fellow communists who, elected and unelected, have been trying to destroy it with multiculturalism.
Yet, except for Mussies, most immigrants that come here come precisely FOR a western lifestyle and all it’s benefits , and aren’t doing enough destroying.
They quickly learned that with eastern Asians, and switched pretty quickly.
Bloody hell, some of them were quite business minded and even right wing!
Hence the left’s desire to see immigration from the most wretched and disgusting cultures on the planet, and joyously encourage radical islam.
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Not really.
Australia is a formally Christian, crony capitalist, soon to have to decide between Chinese or Arab domination country.
With so many of these pricks flying around the world, this was bound to happen.
It was statistically surprising it hadn’t happened yet, but not that many private jets go down and when they do, it’s only small numbers involved.
The UN will decree no more commercial air travel with the proles for their VIP’s.
I come down on the side of submission to our Chinese friends, if you really have to pick one.
Billionaire donorclass favorite, stabby mclickspittle bishop lived a sellout career of signing any document that progressed the agenda of her billionaire speed dial owners.
If there was a functioning media class in australia, we would have a big list of exactly what our well coiffed quisling has unswervingly and eternally signed us up to.
And a list of donations.
Crony socialism is simple, billionaire crony developer donors pay for political policies based on massive debt funded trillion dollar credit creation and massive importation of millions of the worlds poorest people as consumption machines to squander the credit on crushloading australias cities.
The oligarchs sellout australias urban amenity for cents in the dollar for personal profit and their crony political creatures get brown paper bags of fivers and free chinese banquets.
Comrade Maaaaaaaaates.
The physical bodies of australias political corruptocracy have the right to be anywhere on earth when it comes time for the vote on a fair dinkum exit from all transnational conventions corruptly signed for kickbacks.
Their votes still count as long as their heads are on pikes on display in the parliment.
Blink if you oppose an end to corruptly signed conventions.
Comrades.
What methodology was used to determine that the “lots of dirty looks” were due to the “speaking English”?
Eyrie
#2955468, posted on March 11, 2019 at 9:34 am
Looks like the Ethiopian crash was a MAX 8 and under similar circumstances to the October Indonesian one.
Hmmm.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6791675/Ethiopian-Airlines-plane-way-Nairobi-crashes-157-people-board.html
157 dead including these.
“As many as 50 delegates are believed to have been on the plane heading to the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi, which begins tomorrow.”
Time you guys all started using Skype or other video conferencing.
Eyrie
yes if you look at the Flightradar24 data regarding the crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 you will see flight 302 going up and down like a yo-yu, just like Lion Air 737 Max 8
As the Bllomberg Article Second Boeing 737 Max Crash Within Months Kills 157 in Ethiopia
The FAA and Boeing have been finalizing a software fix for an obscure anti-stall measure created for the 737 Max that came to light with the Indonesia tragedy. The Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS, triggered by an erroneous sensor reading, had baffled pilots by pushing the Lion Air plane downward dozens of times before it crashed.
The Lion Air tragedy in Indonesia, like the Ethiopian Airlines crash, occurred shortly after takeoff. Data from the Indonesian jet’s flight recorder showed that an errant sensor had signaled that the plane was in danger of stalling, causing the MCAS software to push the aircraft’s nose downward.
Two short, erratic Boeing flights end in tragedy: Could they be linked?
The pilots on the Lion Air jet counteracted the movement repeatedly, but the cycle repeated itself more than two dozen times before the plane entered its final dive. The accident inflamed controversy over pilot training for the 737 Max, since Boeing hadn’t flagged the anti-stall feature in training materials or most flight crew manuals.
As of last week, Southwest and American hadn’t yet received any information from Boeing about the promised MCAS software patch, although neither carrier says its planes have experienced any problems with the system.
Yes, maybe I should have put it in the past tense.
Bloody teachers.
Always correcting people!
Australia was a once vibrant western, capitalist country, with a constitution and parliamentary law and culture purely Christian.
It enjoyed great benefits from this and on the world stage, exceeded in performance and achievement, in everything from sport, inventiveness, and record breaking achievements such as in flight.
Then a generation came along that spawned the likes of Numbers……………………………..
AA also has enough females hitting the ground this year on other stations to fully restock their country on the Flinders floodplain.
Individual stations do not have access to a calf factory elsewhere churning out more than their entire Cloncurry holdings can carry.
Australia is 90% white european.
That there’s a couple of other tiny nations living inside our borders because the current political establishment is lunatic drunk on hatred of the white working classes and empathy gone wild is neither here nor there.
You have a hard enough time here.
That’s why they put you in charge of the dribbling retards.
You and your shaving mirror.
As shown this morning, with your inability to comprehend the Quadrant article, when brains were being handed out, you were on stress leave.
Climate administrators should now make all their contesserations virtual to save lives and CO2.
The English speaking people are everywhere. and in everything on the retreat.
We abort an horrific proportion of pregnancies. We have exported our industrial base, hollowed out education and academia. Most are now atheists. Most children do not know the stories behind Christmas or Easter, or even who fought who in WW II.
In England, the political class is fighting tooth and nail against the results of a popular vote in order to keep it subject to the EU.
In the USA, the Democrats are at the point of advocating eliminating the country’s borders with the Spanish speaking south.
Virtually all products in every store and shop across all our nations are made in the PRC.
The next generations of consumer products. software and industrial plant will be designed in China.
Eventually the empty trademarks that gave us reassurance during the transition will be gone.
So will the cheap prices and functioning just in time delivery networks.
Get ready to eat shit.
That is all the good news I have today. Sunshine mode off.
As soon as the fences are fixed on the AAC floodplain stations, aac cattle from droughted stations can be trucked in.
Cut their million dollar a week feed bill.
Family stations may be able to take stock on agistment or profit share or sell management services to other cattle owners to fund infrastructure repairs, but the numbers aren’t as good as running your own cattle.
They don’t need any more bad luck for a while.
With all this bullshit on planes these days, they should note be allowed to produce this fly by wire electronics ans sensors etc bound to fail, without having a big red button in the cockpit marked “manual flight” where the basic control of the plane can be put 100 percent back in the pilot’s hands.
The bigger A/Craft would require power assistance that should be from a completely separate form.
We are now seeing the generations of all brains no common sense building cars and planes, over engineering and relying too much on fallible computer and sensor technology.
I cite the precautionary principle as why climate professionals should no longer fly all around the world to exotic tropical resorts. You can never be too careful.
Try this, Numbers:
Je suis un Australian et ma Francais est terrible, mais j’attempte la lingua belle Francais
They’ll speak English quite cheerfully once they know you’re neither a Pom, not in the least intelligent and inflict on their tongue great indignities than even Bill Shorten could manage at a Young Labor camp.
Conclude by announcing Plastic Bertrand would make a better president than Macron. They’ll kiss you on both cheeks and send you on your way.
If you can resist the temptation, DON’T tell them how your life was reduced to a pathetic shambles as a linear consequence of the French failure of arms at Dien Bien Phu.
reminds me of budgerigar we had when I was a kid.
Who’s a pretty boy then?
Never had any problem.
Our FM radio stations across the English speaking world play music from twenty or more years ago, because we have stopped producing new music worth listening to.
Our story tellers just keep pummeling the corpse of long- dead authorities who have had no real influence over anything for three generations.
Our standards are so low that small girls are accepted into roles that were previously reserved for the best and strongest men.
We no longer hang even the worst murdering criminals or seek to keep the mentally ill contained.
The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.
The mediaeval mind did see the world differently, forces of good and evil were far more immanent and present in the world. It is funny, mediaevals are held up as backward and superstitious yet their beliefs are comparable to the superstitions of the Romans and Greeks who maintained vast priesthoods and practiced all manner of augury, prophecy and necromancy, believed in witches, spirits and whatnot.
When we read of Joan hearing voices, perhaps we should consider what experience she was putting into words. An intuition that strikes with such force that it seems to come from without is hardly new. We would even say that it was like a voice without being considered gaga. Our understanding of nature and the human psyche means the idea of another voice being in head is absurd. If we grew up believing that the supernatural might intervene then this would not be weird at all.
I expect most people would have experienced something like this at the time – telling them the right way to behave, unflinchingly exhorting them to duty and honour and such, enhancing life.
When we speak of people hearing voices we generally think think of something very particular – where the voices confuse, taunt, or encourage acts deleterious to the welfare of the host.
The mediaevals would have seen that as the intervention of the evil forces.
Let me help you feel better.
Donald Trump.
He still has five odd more years to go.
He understands his capitalist country can pound China and win.
Because he believes in capitalism and competition.
Man of the pseudorighties here think it’s a matter of population which, history shows, is a croc of shit.
But he gets it.
That’s why TDS is so bad with the left.
There is still hope, and although the white English speakers maybe dying out, more people than ever are speaking English, it is the universal language for good reason, it is the best language, born of freedom to acquire other words and adapt.
And the other stuff has been caused by the shit like numbers, in our schools.
Are you saying that atonal chanting about hos and bling isn’t worth listening to?
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There isn’t, but we should act as if there is.
But first, we must face up to how bad it is, and sweep away those who brought us here.
Nothing persuades me more of someone’s suitability for high office that their wallowing in self-pity for their own choices.
The rattling jumble of bones in a human-shaped skin sack simply cannot see why no one else sees her as the colossus she sees in the mirror in the mornings.
The only time she was impressive was after MH17 was shot down over Ukraine and Abbott put his hand up her back and operated her mouth as she strutted (accompanied by persistent clattering of bones) the world stage.
Willing to stand corrected, but I think in most recent stats, the Chinese are the biggest cohort coming here.
Since life and travel patterns changed for me in 2013, the demographics of northern Sydney have notably changed. The Han are moving in, in large numbers, quickly. People at the supermarket I am trying to give helpful advice to who simply smile back and shrug their shoulders – can’t speak a single word of English.
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I think there is a difference between people who WANT to go to a new and better place; and those who simply desire to GET AWAY from someplace awful, although they really didn’t want to go in the first place.
Fraser’s hillbillies from the Bekaa Valley have been stridently resistant to assimilation, and bring a lot of the ‘old ways’ with them. A lot of the Han are here as an insurance policy against the rise of the Second Great Helmsman – Xi. They are quite happy in a Chinese bubble. Take a walk between Town Hall and Central – there are vast numbers of people living, working and studying in that stretch who need never speak a word in other than Mandarin or Korean.
See above. Not so sure about that – the Han like China and Chinese ways, just a bit worried about Xi-ism. See also – Forest City as a template for a bubble world.
Again, depends on willingness, age ( how many elderly grandparents are we importing ? ) and necessity. If everything in your life is in Chinese, Korean, Arabic or whatever – who cares about ‘Strine.
No brainer. Oh – there may be some exceptions from African conflict zones.
Mmmmm. By the time we see if that hypothesis wins out, it will be too late if the view is incorrect.
How Boeing’s 737 Max Went From Bestseller to Safety Concern
Nov. 7, 2018
Boeing responds to the crash by advising pilots that the Max’s so-called angle-of-attack sensor can provide false readings, causing the plane’s computers to erroneously detect a mid-flight stall in airflow. That in turn can cause the aircraft to abruptly dive to regain the speed the computer has calculated it needs to keep flying. Pilots could counteract the sudden downward tilt by following a checklist in their training manual, the planemaker said.
I am missing something here
– your plane is close to the ground and the software has caused the aircraft to abruptly dive to regain the speed the computer has calculated it needs to keep flying. and Boeing’s solution is to follow a checklist in their training manual – “hang on why I look for and then go through the Checklist – “Oops sorry I have crashed – I ran out of time!!!?
Heres a little bit of trumpian splendor for Monday.
His barring local tax deductions over a set amount it bearing fruit in the big apple.
https://nypost.com/2019/03/09/new-york-city-is-edging-toward-financial-disaster-experts-warn/
Property taxes, almost half of the city’s revenue, is rising faster than any other revenue source — squeezing businesses and forcing homeowners, already hit by federal property tax deduction changes, to relocate to lower-tax states.
Dear me, are some of those calling for higher taxes for everyone else fleeing higher taxes?
In the music industry I’ll have you know there are great talents.
They only gives the crap that bow down to triple JJJ and leftism.
The best art and music comes out of non government funded situations.
The golden age of music recently, from the western world from Before Elvis to about the year 2000 show us that.
What music did the communist block produce in that time?
The more socialist, the less quality is the art.
‘Julie Bishop continues her never-ending Gillardian vagina monologues:’
It says a lot about the insularity and/or bias and/or lack of curiosity of the Canberra Press gallery that it has never even hinted – perhaps it’s never even dawned on them – what everyone else in Canberra knows. That Bishop is a lazy, feckless, incompetent shallow show-pony.
FM what the hell?
There’s tonnes of good music being made, it’s just not on horrible centrally controlled distibution platforms anymore.
When was the last time 60 Minutes reported anything that resounded outside the TV bubble.
Even Four Corners can achieve that (although they have to fabricate stuff to do it).
60 Minutes is just interactive theatre for people who want to pretend they are in the thick of things, but when the end credits begin to role the whole fantasy disappears in a puff, promptly replaced by news that you will save 10c on a packet of Tim Tams this week at Coles.
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No.
It is all dirge-like crap.
Last time Australia had an enourmous mining boom that ended up with a hangover off all of the chancer, mercenary riff-raff of the world hanging around our towns and cities causing trouble we eventually sorted things out with some simple legislation and a new government that was out of the hands of the colonial gentry and in the hands of the people.
That lasted ok for nearly a century, we just have to do that again.
Easy.
Clever Mark Knight cartoon on Page 25 of today’s Herald Sun: a house brick with ScoMo’s features attempts to fly in the Moomba Birdman Rally, which celebrates the dodos of this world.
(I don’t have a sub, so I can’t locate the URL; Knight is no longer on Twitter, which used to allow me to post his work.)
The root cause of her misery is not having any children.
She wants somebody to blame.
Men.
Renewables on the march on the downs.
Laughed aloud at the lights this morning as I listened to Ray Hadley talking about the latest African tribal brawl in Melbourne. Something about how the festival was meant to showcase ethnic culture.
Well, yes.
Moomba Festival has been marred by violent youths for third year in a row.
Perfect symbolism. The hordes fight for dominance outside a defunct Christian church.
Wow. Hundreds of police arrested three whole people.
I have heard Celia Hammond is a conservative. And a very clever one at that. Comments?
Walked out the door this morning to see my son’s car tailgate open and his work boot on the ground.
All his near new tools stolen. He is still an apprentice so it’s an especially big financial hit.
Miserable curs, to steal a person’s livelihood.
https://www.afr.com/news/economy/trumps-us-wage-rises-ignored-by-bill-shorten-20190310-h1c7bl
Good analysis whch shows trickle down economics at work.
Please let me add to this those nerds currently designing ‘features’ on smart phones, and especially those tinkering with the phone cameras. My camera on my S9x is now so complicated I can hardly use it, and I’m sure the S10 has great improvements made to complicate it even further. The number of obscure menus you have to chase down a rabbit hole to get to something fairly everyday (like a hotspot switch for instance) is simply dreadful. It would be OK if they didn’t keep changing the menu route, but every new phone iteration puts things you want in a different place.
Doesn’t sound like terrible work and it’s not strenuous either as you could do it 7 days a week. Almost A$150,000 a year tax free. That would be close to A$250,000 in taxable income? You could also gain weight!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6791637/Homeless-beggars-making-200-DAY-reveals-ex-soldier-says-11lb-streets.html
Senior Democrats now calling for extermination of the Romanovs …
Mayor Bill de Blasio:
Meanwhile …
Low dogs.
Ballarat Chinese miners upset many.
May be the WA Libs have more sense than in NSW. Seems like full on civil war in that state. Time for a split?
Things going swimmingly in numbers paradise.
‘A city of shadows’: fear as Venezuela’s crippling blackout enters day four
But fear not, 15 years of Shorten will get us there (or 25 years of the stupid fucking libs).
Very bad manners, to expect people to speak your language in a foreign country.
Start in French and you get a very different response, and people very happy to speak English. Mind you I’ve had people in Paris approach me and offer assistance in English when I have been wrestling with maps, or to tell me to zip up my backpack, the rude Parisian stereotype is exaggerated, not surprised that you promulgate it.
it might surprise you too that some of us don’t only speak to people in the tourist trade, and as I mentioned the aspirational who are keen to migrant to or work in, or do business with English speaking countries do speak English.
It’s called “marketing”, Lizzie.
These phones have extra new features, whether needed or not.
It’s one of the characteristics of the capitalist system -you need to take the bad with the good.
You’ll just have to go with the flow and quit whingeing, or buy a cheaper phone.
Nokia 7.1 is worth a look.
Comparing phones is a bit like comparing Audis with Kias. It’s an “image” thing.
One is more reliable and cheaper.
The other has a name that appeals to status conscious “aspirationals”, but is really a Volkswagen in a nice suit, and you pay through the nose for the name.
Das Auto……
Yes, SFL’s. I still can’t understand why they haven’t twigged that Abbott won a massive number of seats in an outstanding victory in 2013 on immigration and not being ripped off by a carbon tax and that it’s all been downhill since then. What could possibly be missing?
I guess another five years of met bureau ‘hottest evahs’ has pushed along the climate agenda, but it can still be fought and defeated with a clear-eyed policy blueprint on not letting things as yet harmless or unproven collapse our economy under Shorten. But even Abbott is running scared on it now.
It’s like the third or 4th day now… But hey, what’s happening in Venezuela isn’t really like… real socialism.
3ndeed, Notafan.
I’ll be appearing on Sky tonight at 8 – talking about privatising the ABC.
Bill de Blasio Net Worth
A millionaire trougher wants to give OPM to other lefty troughers.
But fear not, 15 years of Shorten will get us there (or 25 years of the stupid fucking libs).
Bishop is a lazy, feckless, incompetent shallow show-pony.
Flattery will get you nowhere Des.
But seriously, why not? As distorting and evil subsidies are why not subsidize a coal station when we’re doing it with ruinables?
CL, todays DM mentions NY about to go bust.
Dickhead, she doesn’t have to take the bad at all.
It’s called choice, and she is discussing with adults weather the choice is worth it o not.
Think of it as feedback.
Whereas feedback in our utopia gets you sent to Gulugs.
17 year wait for an east german snotbox, anyone?
No choice there.
But fear not, 15 years of Shorten will get us there (or 25 years of the stupid fucking libs).
struth
Exactly, struth.
Just because Labor and the Greens bat on about ‘by 2030’ doesn’t mean the power grid ticks along until New Years Day 2030 and then, kabong, Caracas here we come.
The more unreliables the Feds and States mandate, the less incentive to invest in the current power baseload.
‘By 2030’ will come a lot sooner.
Sinc on Sky “after dark” lol! Look forward to it!
Keep Classic FM and regional ABC radio but sell the rest.
So hopefully we’ll slap him down at the election, the fuckwit UN puppet that it is.
I wouldn’t swap my Audi Q5 for a Kia, Numbers, unless I was really broke. Thankfully, I am (we are) not. It’s better than a Volkswagen too, any day. You do get what you pay for with Das Auto, although we could do without the wretched luxury tax. I’ll burn you up Heartbreak Hill into Vaucluse (rats! they just reduced speed to 50k’s so we’ll go after midnight) and you’ll see. Power and engineered harmony in an auto is power indeed. Very nice it is too.
As for marketing, someone soon will see the real gap in the market and put out a smart phone and camera that meets the real needs of the technologically less-inclined. My kids all love their ‘new’ phones with all features. I and others resistant to nerdish bothers constitute a niche market, and capitalism is good at seizing those. It’s also very good at creative destruction. Pause to think how good a phone you would have now, Numbers, if socialism had been producing them. It would be like flying on Aeroflot. Yetch.
‘The last time I was in Europe and tried to speak English in France, I got lots of dirty looks.’
In a trip to Paris I entered a retail shop and asked a question in English. The sales person asked if I could speak French. I replied I could not but I would try if he had plenty of time. He replied with a smile, no English would be fine!
Whatever St Joan heard or didn’t hear, she inspired the French to beat the English enemy and she was a good and faithful Catholic who died for her beliefs at the hands of the enemy.
Are you sure you’re not a little confused, Lizzie?
The S9X is a popular brand of variable speed wind turbine.
I don’t know if it actually makes calls, and it must be a bugger to haul around in the Audi.
Speaking of rude uncouth capitalist behaviour I’m entertained by AOC’s latest baggage:
Ocasio-Cortez owes back taxes from 2012, ignored notices, but wants Americans to pay more taxes (10 Mar)
A socialist who doesn’t pay her taxes? How embarrassing! No wonder she’s so critical of capitalism: she tried doing it and faceplanted totally.
Exackerly, Struth.
Complain as I did above, and a visit from the Stasi is booked for you immediately.
“Israel is not a country of all its citizens. According to the Nation-State Law that we passed, Israel is the nation-state of the J€wish nation – and its alone.” – Benjamin Netanyahu 2019
I’ve been following Cat for some days now (I used to follow a pretty similar blog back home). I am a newcomer to Australia , escaping from a country crippled by 16 years of Labour Party rule. Everybody around me seems to be voting for Shorten in the coming election. I obviously don’t vote, but I am doing my best to try to explain what happened back home and how this could easily happen in Australia if it keeps its current march. So far I’ve sadly not been too successful…
I feel really sorry for libertarian and conservative Australians, but it seems everyone will have to see first-hand were this damned ideology leads to. Brace yourselves… I’ve seen this before… It’s really ugly. Hopefully everyone will come back to senses before it’s too late.
I’ll be appearing on Sky tonight at 8 – talking about privatising the ABC.
Be prepared to have the AFP investigate you
Doomlord, 5,000 bonus molecoins if you can introduce the “R A B Z doctrine” to the conversation.
It’s called “marketing”, Lizzie.
These phones have extra new features, whether needed or not.
It’s one of the characteristics of the capitalist system -you need to take the bad with the good.
He mused as he typed on his Amiga 500 and wondered which of his Daguerreotypes to post using his 56k modem.
Welcome Enoch Root
Believe it or not Australia has a majority conservative voters.
They only have minorities to vote for because our Liberals (right wing) solod out to the left.
We have a noisy left and a way too silent right wing who still believe it’s rude to speak about politics publicly, giving the appearance “everybody is going to vote Labour”
By the sounds of it, you may be in a city as well, which makes it worse.
But It’s great to have you here, but I think you have jumped ship straight onto the Titanic.
new fred
Enoch – Welcome to the Cat OT! We had a Labor government here for 7 years until 2013. It was a mess. And the Left has gotten leftier since then. Unfortunately the Liberal Party has roughly moved into the messy hole the Labor Party of the Rudd-Gillard years has vacated, so we have a choice of lefty vs more lefty vs the loopy Greens.
I will be spoiling my House of Reps ballot paper rather than allow my vote to flow to the major parties via preferences, and in the Senate I’ll vote only for twelve real right wing candidates below the line so no preference can flow to the purple parties there either.
Sinclair Davidson
#2955548, posted on March 11, 2019 at 12:02 pm
I’ll be appearing on Sky tonight at 8 – talking about privatising the ABC.
Now I’d be impressed if you were on the ABC tonight – talking about privatising the ABC. 🙂
Hi Sinclair I’ll be watching.
Good Luck.
At the very least, ABC watchers could have a locked station until they unlock it with a fee payment.
One billion dollars for Hospitals etc, I’m sue you’ve got all the arguments down Pat.
Give them Hell, really get stuck in.
No Mr Nice Guy, it’s way past that.
Whatever my phone’s alphabetical provenance, Numbers, it is the second-latest Samsung.
A nine plus of some sort. Cost around nine hundred bucks too, maybe a year or more ago.
Hairy encouraged me to get it, in order to counter my techno-phobias.
He says I work by folklore on my computer and with all electronic items.
We’re putting in a new kitchen now, and I refused to have a top model electronic oven as we’d had before. I’d never cook again. (Perhaps no bad thing, some might think.) I’ve chosen the legacy Smeg pyrolytic oven and their induction cooktop, both with proper turnable switches and a microwave the same. I noticed that even their severely high end electronic oven now offers drop down menus on a readable panel. I had this same high end model in a previous place about six years ago, and it was awful. A running strip of icons that you just couldn’t keep track of. So obviously they have been listening to feedback (you there Numbers?).
Point of illustration about opaque settings: we stayed in a very smart Airbnb in Stavanger in Norway and the ‘designer’ Norwegian cooktop there absolutely defeated us both. It was all ‘lightly tap the glass top’ driven and you couldn’t even work out what hotplate it referred to. The little bit of Norwegian on the side didn’t help either. We got take-out each of the two nights we were there. Just about managed the washing machine, which was the point of getting an apartment in the first place.
I imagine too it would be possible to ‘lightly tap’ that glass cooktop accidentally as you waved a hand around during a conversation, and bingo! the beans are soup (more than usual) and the spuds are raw.
We’ll record it. We’re out, doing good political duties.
@ struth, posted on March 11, 2019 at 12:26 pm
So, there is hope! Back home they just begun fixing those 16 years of Labour rule now… It’s the same, the people is conservative, but were tricked to vote for Labour. Hopefully the majority start realizing they’re being tricked here as well.
I sure hope there’s still time to steer this Titanic away from the iceberg 😉
Bruce of Newcastle posted on March 11, 2019 at 12:30 pm
Thanks Bruce. Feel at home already,
One thing’s for sure, you’ll never, ever be invited on to the ABC to discuss that topic.
The ABC is adamant in its refusal to countenance any scrutiny of itself.
Actually no. Chris did a lot of ABC radio talking about our book.
about 15 years ago in Northcote Plaza Im going into Kmart with cousin and my kids around xmas.
Thers a guy begging at the entrance suitably disheveled with a deserving story.
As we get close he brightens up and says “oh hi Mark, what are you doing in Melb”
Cuz: Byron is giving me the shits
Begz: yeah me too but Im going back next week. Only came down to earn some money.
Cuz: what are you doing begging
Begz: This isnt begging, its work. A couple of hours here pulls a few hundred.
hand on heart …I saw and heard this in real life.
ps, your’e still a skimmer
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