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‘Maybe if Topender is about he can tell the young wanker Testes, what the green room was’
Why? He’s a blow in who knows as little of Darwin as you
I believe he has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease.
Tom, I think JC is channelling Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Chuck Schumer’s tactic won the ‘potential for momentum’.
Notice how Their ABC protect themselves from the real middle class: they put their most dishonest bullshit on their TV platform, where there is no commenting function.
The perfect, endless, self-perpetuating fantasy bubble for the Filth-voting property millionaires of our new ruling class.
Not much different I should think, but we’d have exported about 20,000 well meaning SJWs to Moresby. Keeping that many progressives busy on an impossible task would have materially improved the rest of Australia.
JC, there is an anti-DNC landslide coming that only Mitch McConnell’s incompetent GOP establishment can fuck up.
Wasn’t the original plan for independence sometime in the early 1990’s?
He needs to go clean his room.
Don’t trigger my Leaf tourettes please.
Bottoms Conspiracy of silence Conspiracy of silence:
Timothy Bottoms. Made a life career out of wearing the black armband, tax eating grants and a professional sorry sayer.
An “interpretive” historian.
In other words, nobody.
Nice to see you here again, frollickingmole.
He’s such an obvious money-hungry fraud. He was telling Bill Maher last week that Trump is currently having an affair. Really. That was quickly disappeared; not even the media wanted to associate themselves with that sort of lunacy. Or, to put it another way, the media decided to protect Wolf from himself so they could go on using his less crazy claims. Lo, he turns up with Sales, credibility in tact and taken seriously.
‘And who could forget Testes old mate, Senator Bob Collins’
Maybe the NT will name an electorate after him like they did for his errr like minded brethren
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Spillett
He rented a house in Oebobo near the old Undana campus. Some E.Timorese students had used his place to hide from TNI while they organised the next stage of their journey to Jakarta, to seek asylum in Embassies. They played him and he hated it. He and that arsehole Alcorta were the only people in Darwin to write pro Indonesian invasion propaganda. Most hated men in Darwin.
Tee hee Cathy Newwoman
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Slayer;
So that means the land must be rising, which means sea level would be falling.
You couldn’t make this stuff up.
‘if Australia had not pulled out of its management of the country in 1975’
There would have been armed rebellions.
BWWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Endless entertainment at the Cat.
Gab
Thanks, eulogies arent much fun to give, but the funeral went as well as it could.
Mum and dad are in the guilt/blame stage so it will take a while to settle down.
He did leave a 2 million dollar insurance policy to his wife, so at least his family is well taken care of, part of me hates the thought that policy might have been an influence in his decision.
With bows and arrows and stone axes…
I visited the highlands in 1970.
The Hagen sing sing was awesome.
Do you think she really is hate filled? I think about 99% is an act, she gets paid to write and writers need a muse so she just channels some shallow moron wearing vaudeville makeup while her team in the background alternate between hand painted “Cheer!” signs and “Boo Hiss!” signs.
On the occasion I can be bothered giving it a quick scan, it seems somehow tongue in cheek, designed to annoy but impossible to take remotely seriously. I guess there’s probably some of her readers who do take it seriously, and probably that’s a bad thing in terms of ruining people’s lives… but there’s so much material out there that people can get carried away with, I dunno, seems wrong to just blame one particular source.
There’s got to be a deeper problem in terms of lack of genuine positive female role models who are successful, and sensible, intelligent, articulate, and willing to be a public figure who chooses NOT to get into the stupid virtue signalling spiral, “I’m more feminist than you because I believe 7 impossible things!”
Maybe there’s a space for a publication that makes an effort to deliver a constructive message… no trolling, just useful things that help people think for themselves and live their own lives, sans bullshit. I dunno, show me someone else who is doing it? Market niche right there.
‘With bows and arrows and stone axes…’
PNG. Another subject you lot know nothing about.
Perhaps I should have saved up to do that too.
It sounds like quite a good fast-track to some useful knowledge.
Instead I did some on the job training.
Things I learned:
Genuine lizard and croc skin handbags are worth the money, so save up
Good quality shoes matter, ditto
One Chanel suit can take you a long way; buy second hand if necessary
Buy clothes that suit your figure and have your own style; buy quality
Always remove make-up at night and use face cream; Ponds is fine
A smile is always a good investment
So is listening with attention to detail
Keep your voice down (that one was difficult but worthwhile)
Use real perfume not cologne, it lingers; Chanel 5 for day, Shalimar for evenings
Walk proudly like a ballerina married to a king, but also move discretely
There’s probably more. 🙂
Oh, you mean the old fashioned concept of Mum and Grand Mums. Soooo last century.
Oh, and if you have big blue headlamp eyes, turn them on occasionally, especially if wearing blue.
And if you have something you want to say with them. Perhaps to a traffic cop.
Nein’s A Current Affair is alone in pursuing the leftard magistrates letting migrant thugs go scot-free. Best current affairs show in Oz.
We aren’t able to read minds yet, Tel. Has the obese slob ever suggested she isn’t serious, or that some of her comments shouldn’t be taken seriously. I don’t think so. She also seems to be fully immersed in the hate filled ideology of modern feminism. Quite often, when you see an apple on the bench, it really is an apple and you shouldn’t be surprised. To move it along even further, why not take her at her word?
She’s deadly serious.
Ja’mie Bondage?
The Obama era is over, Elba.
There was plenty of damage done to the Dem cause, both long and short term. The Dems came off as putting illegal aliens over US citizens and that isn’t playing well in the Trump era of thinking and speaking freely. That would have been a different story a year ago before the public got used to relying on their common sense and challenging touchy feely PC-based crap they had been fed for 8 years.
He also managed to slice a big gap in the Dem’s unity with the hard core leftists hating the establishment ones for ‘folding’ and the establishment ones backpedaling wildly looking for secure footing.
The poll numbers on immigration alone shifted big time. Trump is going to get what he wants in the immigration debates but will likely bend a bit on the dreamers if he can find a way to do it and not piss off his base too much.
Is Testes on PULP this arvo?
Frollick – hope you mean the current wife not the ex for that policy!
If she is just doing it for PR she should be sacked for breaching journalist standards. If she believes what she writes a neuropsych work up is a priority.
Teste, you are on a computer, have you ever thought of googling to see if you are making a bigger fuckwit out of your self before posting?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/05/papua-new-guinea-abuse-clinic
At a third centre in Tari, in the notoriously violent PNG highlands, patients presented with injuries from weapons like bush knives, axes, spears and arrows.
“There is more of a culture of violence in the highlands regions of the country,” said Hayward-Jones.
Ha yeah, Australia could easily dominate PNG militarily… one of a handful of countries on Earth weaker than we are.
Would you really wish our deficit spending, unionized thugs, and political correctness on anyone else though? I can recommend a lot of things about Australia, but not the management.
If PNG was looking around to get invaded they might try Singapore, or even Thailand. They could declare war on the USA and lose, that’s been known to work. Hey, how about this? They could join the EU, ask for some refugees to get sent over. Have a representative in Brussels explaining that dietary diversity gives strength (then show off a bit of muscle to prove it works). If anyone seems skeptical, just demand a bailout.
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Always blame the dog or children if you pass wind, not the guest.
And a house keeping tip: If you cover everything with gladwrap you never need to clean.
For more advice for the modern traditional women read my column at MrsArky.com
Gab
Yes current wife, to quote her “Id spend every cent to ensue that mole doesnt get any of it”… in addition shes setting up the kids money in trust funds (including the one kid she has been using to bleed my brother) which wont be accessible until they are 25 or so.
Seeing if theres one which can pay a disbursement on my brothers/their birthdays until they are of age.
Dear MrsArky.com, I cant cook a damn, how do I blind my spouse to this defect?
Yours, a completely unrelated MrsArky…
Zat
The immigration poll is really another debate in terms of what it means and how the two big parties react.
Look, the Dems have the MSM in their pocket. The way the MSM reported the closing is that there’s instability in Washington and they’re up to their usual tricks of not caring about Joe Public and they just care about themselves. In other words, it was the pox on both houses routine. Most Americans don’t know it takes 60 senators to pass money bills and they would look at what occurred as just another day in Washington with Trump acting up again.
This wasn’t meant to win any great battle. It was meant to persuade the public that Trump and the GOP are unstable and unreliable. As Scott Adams would refer to it, it’s a persuasion technique.
Oh please. Is that even possible anymore?
What you are saying would be equivalent to a show getting thrown off the ABC for showing outrageous “Progressive” bias and breaching their Sacred Charter of Neutrality.
TFM – did you check the policy does not exclude death due to self harm?
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You will need to rely on your charm and good looks.
Also have all the local takeaway’s on speed dial.
Be prepared to spend some time at the A&E for the resultant heart attack/ indigestion scares from your malnourished and paranoid husband.
Hey splatterPattern
Here is another mob of shitholes that live in Haiti for you to defend.
Haiti wants to wipe out Dominican Republic and have Soros, Clintons UN NGO’s and assorted scum backing them.
An interesting thumbnail sketch.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/01/international_ngos_back_haitis_undermining_of_dominican_sovereignty_.html
pete m
Apparently it was covered as long as it wasnt within the first 15 months of the policy (theyd had it 8 years), something that surprised me.
Has to go through probate etc yet so there may be a clause there somewhere, his wifes uncle is a lawyer and assured her the policy stands.
Good, Frollick.
According to SBS News the Schumer shut down COST the US $900 million per day. How does that work?
Heh. We purchased a tourista type ax because it was pretty and some tourists’ arrows, but were interested in the actual weapons too. The greenstone war axes were formidable. Lots of work. Drove Goroka-Hagen-Goroka-Lae. Great fun. Everyone was very nice.
My aunt was a missionary in PNG for many years 60’s through 80’s.
Love your reflex assumptions TP.
Shy Ted
#2617595, posted on January 23, 2018 at 6:52 pm
That is hilarious, Ted.
Thanks for posting.
Nope NZ Gov sure knows nothiiiing about new boats. POLRI and NZ Police are only working together to stop them –
‘Head of Criminal Investigation Police Komjen Ari Dono Sukmanto said, Police cooperate with New Zealand in countering transnational crime.
One of them related cases of trafficking in persons whose phenomenon continues to grow….Indonesia and New Zealand will increase syndicate detection efforts that operate in each region.
One of the trafficking cases involving Indonesia and New Zealand is when the Sri Lanka-flagged ship was stranded in the North Nias Sea on August 9, 2017. The vessel carries 33 passengers of Sri Lankan nationality. The trip was organized by citizens of Sri Lanka initials J.
“From the examination results are known, the illegal immigrants departed to New Zealand,” said Ari.
The illegal immigrants are dispatched from Sri Lanka and must pay 300,000 to 500,000 Rupees or equivalent to Rp 27 million to Rp 43 million. In addition to the case, there is another smuggling of 41 Vietnamese on October 26, 2017. At that time, the ship carrying them was stranded on the island of Tablolong, East Nusa Tenggara.’
http://nasional.kompas.com/read/2017/12/06/13012301/kabareskrim-ungkap-cara-indonesia-dan-selandia-baru-tangani-kasus
I can’t remember who, but someone referring to the extravagant PNG public service described Australia as having bequeathed a first world public service to a third world country.
That’s a serious load of money.
Salim Mehajer will spend the night behind bars after he was accused of staging a Sydney car crash to avoid facing court over an assault.
The controversial businessman applied for bail at Waverley Local Court on Tuesday but magistrate Jennifer Giles adjourned her decision until Wednesday.
Mehajer was on his way to court over the alleged assault of a taxi driver when his Mercedes AMG collided with a Mitsubishi Outlander at an intersection near his home in Lidcombe in October last year.
He was freed by firefighters and taken to hospital, while his passenger and the occupants of the other vehicle – two women aged 31 and 32 – were not injured.
A police strike force investigated the crash, and on Tuesday morning Mehajer was arrested at a home in Vaucluse, while his associate Ahmed Jaghbir was also arrested at a Lidcombe property.
Jaghbir, 28, is defending an unrelated murder charge following the shooting death in March last year of Sydney underworld figure Kemel Barakat.
Both Mehajer and Jaghbir have been charged with perverting the course of justice and conspiracy to cheat and defraud.
Oz link
We aren’t able to read minds yet, Tel.
I actually thought I could for a while.
I also thought I could control the weather with my mind.
It was not pleasant, mainly because everyone around was thinking I was a right mad f$cker.
That’s how I knew it was true and not just psychosis.
😁
OMG! They were almost on NZ’s doorstep!
Every time you read something, you absorb a little bit of the mind of the author. Sometimes, what they intended you to absorb, sometimes something else.
When I have a scan over Clem’s efforts, it comes through plainly that she is playing up for yucks, she has been doing it for years and although it’s gotten way beyond a joke the pay is too good, she is deadly afraid of ever facing a real job, and she adores the attention. She always intended to jump off as soon as things got out of hand, except she’s forgotten the way home again.
If you are interested in obscure book recommendations, try Paula Volsky, “The Wolf of Winter”
It’s a kind of rambling morality play, but the message is sensible enough… sometimes we get ourselves into these situations where it’s unthinkable to back out, and then the only way is to keep going even when that’s obviously a bad idea.
Is that Sales – Woolff farce over yet? Did she hammer him like that British bint did with Petersen.? Never forget where Guthrie came from. The Google den of iniquity, gradually being exposed in a US Court case.
Google/ABC the perfect fit.
True, I realised the absurdity of the idea immediately after hitting post.
Did anyone sully themselves by watching it?
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I’m thinking of a number between one and ten.
What is it?
Soros’ bid for World domination must be going off the rails if he is even bothering with Haiti. Calling it a shithole is actually offensive to genuine shitholes.
Was Their Aunty Google outfoxed by a Wolff in sheeps clothing?
Funny how Melbourne is gang free.
Italy has some sort of problem with youth crime, but somewhat amusingly they are called, in English, ‘baby gangs’
No reference to ethnicity
I suspect not necessarily Africans and ME types, no Nixon Ashtons here
Lots of sub continentals waiting in the lawyer next door’s front room last night.
Illegal immigrantration’s silver lining
Everyone thinks of either three or seven.
Sorry for the spoiler.
Excellent advice.
Mrs. Ape also suggests supermarket ready-to-cook meals and some fresh things that are easy to cut up and add to make ‘assemblages’ of cold collations in summer with a few salad leaves thrown on top.
Toast with smashed avocado and crumbled feta is trending right now for brunches.
If all else fails, give him poached eggs timed 5 mins in Motelier’s recommended poacher.
Place neatly on artisan bread toasted (already sliced by baker, take from freezer to toaster).
Top eggs with smoked salmon and a scoop of French creme sauce from a jar.
When served with a kiss and a promise, you can’t go wrong.
If he wants steak tell him real men cook it themselves. 🙂
I’m thinking of a number between one and ten.
What is it?
Sux.
Wrong.
Something to think about. Some weeks ago I recalled the importance of choline in the diet. So I checked and it is rather difficult to obtain enough in the diet. I contacted my nutrition guru who recommended granular lecithin. It arrived today, I sprinkled it over the vegetables. Nice taste. Granular lecithin is cheap and boosting choline intake, especially for old bastards like myself, is a good idea.
Try again.
Your mind reading faculty might have been thrown off because I’m so much better looking than you it must have felt alien.
Hairy has just arrived in with some Barramundi filets. He wants to fry them. Go ahead, I say.
I would wrap them in foil with some butter and dill paste for twelve minutes in the oven at 180.
Works for me.
I’m off to watch. And put on some spuds and snow peas. With Hairy there I won’t put both on at the same time, which I used to do. He has instructed me otherwise. I will throw the snow peas into boiling water for three minutes at the end. One of my cooking problems, he has told me, is that I like to put everything on at once and keep it boiling. Traditional style, I used to call it till I knew better. Now it just happens as a reflex action. I know it is wrong.
I checked choline too, Mitch. Dr. Google said lots of red meat and green vegies.
Plus ca change, I thought. I eat plenty of both.
Probably there are all sorts of absorptive experiments showing I’m likely deficient.
But that is so for so many things I give up and just eat what I feel like.
It’s worked so far. 🙂
Ha! Yes that was a classic cartoon. Wasn’t it in Tokyo Classifieds? Might check to see if it’s on da intynet later.
Shouldn’t say it, but can’t resist ‘Kill all Lawyers.’ I am sure the Bard didn’t mean it either.
Mine was √π
Winston
Imagine for a while being wired and cramped up in a sub back in the day with a pack of similarly wired paranoics waiting for a ping (and maybe another pinger)
testpattern
#2617604, posted on January 23, 2018 at 7:02 pm
‘With bows and arrows and stone axes…’
PNG. Another subject you lot know nothing about.
Enlighten us, oh great polymath!
Is the Hummuside squad involved?
Pretty close DrBG.
I was thinking pi.
Mine was √π
That choice is irrational, BG.
Try again.
I was thinking of pi or e – cunning stunt.
Holy cow! There is some genuine comedy on ABC22 tonight, the League of Gentlemen, just before 10. One of those comedies where you’ve really got to see it from S1Ep1 to get it but don’t miss it anyway. Or go to Tasmania for the real thing.
Mo’st likely.
Ed Sheeran as Kunta Kinte in a re-make of Roots.
Why not?
Wolff had “unprecedented” access to the White House according to Sales. Wolff was “a fly on the wall”.
Sydney former public servant charged with sending $30,000 to Isis
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jan/23/sydney-former-public-servant-charged-with-sending-30000-to-isis
Merhi, from the western Sydney suburb of Guildford, faced Parramatta local court on Tuesday afternoon, charged with five counts of intentionally making funds available to or collecting funds on behalf of a terrorist organisation. She showed little emotion during the brief appearance.
Her lawyer, Mona El Baba, indicated she would make a bail application next Tuesday and the magistrate, Tim Keady, adjourned the matter. (To save you reading the whole thing).
Can’t have peace without proper funding.
Heh
Salim Mehajer has a good alibi. He is in the clink awaiting a bail hearing tomorrow.
Glenn Maxwell displaying the benefits of not training “smart.”
Whatever he’s doing in the nets, it’s obviously working for him.
Sales earned a tongue bath from Googles Guthrie tonight. First-rate television.
Yay! The Kraken is awakened.
Four weeks in the making (two days quoted). Finally online from 4.00pm today.
6.5kW of subsidy-slurping solar cells. AND a big battery to boot.
I wonder if South Australia would like to buy some electrickery?
pie = 8.54 yums
Monica Lewinsky had access to the President’s penis.
“Unprecedented” seems a smidgen over-cooked.
ShyTed, the LOG was hilarious.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=09NxgGWI89M
I have been scanning through to see what heroic flashes of insight have be posted since last evening. To my chagrin, the thread is overpopulated with the fool who, like an unbreakable pinanta (or gin’s head to put it in a local context), keeps popping up with ever more stupid shit, unaffected by the floggings the poster continues to receive.
I can only assume that the poster is either totally devoid of self reflection, or else is an avatar that the Catallaxy Master(s) (sexual stereotype warning) is using to in vivo stress test contributors.
Either way it is putting me off. Not that this matters a fuck. Just saying
Yes, Monicas access to the Presidential penis was definitely not “unprecedented”. More than a few others had accessed it before her.
Face it, Arky, we’re both smartarses.
Guardian headline – Crocodile Dundee was sexist, racist and homophobic. Let’s not bring that back.
and
Jimmy Carr criticised for saying New Zealand city needs earthquake to look better.
but
‘I really will’: the stars who didn’t move to Canada when Trump won
and
Trump hasn’t just done a good job, he’s done a great job’ – the view from Muncie, Indiana.
Sack those last two writers, it’s the Guardian.
Transcendental, Delta.
Soryy, stimpy.
Gab you heard right, absolutely delish – Mary Berry has a great recipe – but lamb in any form cooked in any cuisine is always popular. I had never ever eaten lamb until the first time the Sunbather took me home to meet his parents. His beautiful mum cooked a lamb roast with all the trimmings, – it was a revelation. The first thing I asked my mamma was why we’d never eaten lamb. She explained that in our little country town all she could smell at the butcher’s was mutton and thought that was all she’d ever get so didn’t bother.
China is now the new colonial power in Papua New Guinea.
While their Julie Bishop has indulged her pathetic and cringeworthy abject submission to the looting cartels that demand the economic and cultural genocide of traditional Australia, flying to paris to sign capitulation document after confession document after self critique document, she has abandoned Australias backyard to China.
China to now build beautiful new roads right up into the unharvested high value timber areas of PNG.
Australia sends our PNG money through New York, and the Clinton crime family keeps 97 cents out of the Australian tax dollar as administration fees.
What a brilliant idea Julie bishop
Unbelievable, we are forbidden from doing anything other than showing gays or trannies in a glowing light, lest we be homophobic.
Transcendental, Delta.
Nothing airy-fairy about it, BG.
Square root of pi is an irrational number. I like my numerals neatly lined up and able to fit logically between one and ten. Is that really too much to ask?
Winning bigly Baldrick
The Guardian article in question…
Hummuside Squad.
Noice.
Very noice.
Nick
This is because poofterism is the National Sexuality of Australia. If you can get close enough to them, ask the young boys that are dragged out to Ceremony. It’s one of the few traditions that has not been swept away by the evils of being dragged out of the Stone Age, and I suspect it may soon be incorporated into Smoking Events and some such, if the Government can find the $Billions it will require to get past the Secret Men’s Business stuff; much like that required re Sacred Sites etc.
A man, believed to be a well-known local lawyer aged in his 60s
If the next one is a bank manager someone needs to find Sal At The Pub.
84 off 47 balls.
Yep, he needs to become a sour prick like Smith.
“Are we interested in having a Bond character other than being a male?”
Mr Moneypenny sounds f$cking gay.
…and to give credence to the recently as today discovered agricultural propensities of our Noble Savages (TM), I would like to remind anyone interested that Harold Holt didn’t drown. He was taken by a Mini sub into the artesian system where he has set up a secret base under Ayres Rock, funded by the Sacred Vegemite Plantations the sustained our displaced heroes in the tough times. Azaria Chamberlain was not taken by a dingo. Harold and the indigs kidnapped her and are using her to be part of the program to breed a race of Superozzies.
Don’t say you weren’t aware
Yummy phi(s)?
84 off 47 balls.
So Maxwell didn’t get out playing a dumb shot. Good for him
Funny, the comments under the Guardian/Dundee article are almost all critical of the sentiment of the piece.
Bit fatty compared to other cuts but tasty.
We start ours on the barby to brown it. Being a bit fatty it flares up and really crisps the outside. Then roast in the oven.
I wouldn’t pay more for shoulder than leg, but.
The demorats have some of the craziest women in politics anywhere:
Maxine waters
Sheila Jackson lee
Frederica Wilson
Nancy Pelosi
Elizabeth warren
You could walk into any psychiatric institution in the world and not compile a bigger lot of mad women than that lot.
T E, I liked this one:
Nothing airy-fairy about transcendental numbers, Delta. They are the numbers that are not solutions to algebraic equations with rational coefficients. That is, nearly all of them.
The number √π fits quite neatly between √3 and 2. I suspect you want your numbers to have nearest neighbours. Yes, it’s too much to ask. There isn’t a rational positive number next to zero.
Sorry, but we need a continuinuinum. Otherwise Zeno’s paradox pokes us in the eye.
TVOne television showed workers and shoppers running out of a mall in central Jakarta in panic.
A grab from a story re an earthquake in Indonesia. This does not excuse but goes some way to explain my own frequent grammatical lapses. It was written by a journalist. I was illiterate until I learnt to read and write #wher’esMYhandout?
Yes, it’s too much to ask. There isn’t a rational positive number next to zero.
Well thanks, you’ve just spoiled my day completely.
re the mathematic gymnastics- I think now would be a good time to crack out Occam’s razor
Sounds a tad Grigoryesque.
Lamballaxy.
You got a problem with that, hun?
😀
Sounds a tad Grigoryesque.
That’s a gross insult, eggy. Awaiting your apology.
Nein.
I do.
It should be Porkallaxy!
Pork is the king of meats.
Better than discussing old shoes someone (not naming names) refuses to throw out.
The one week of the year we can do some good old fashioned lambology, but no …
Good comment. Zeno is the mathematical expression of hope/delusion versus reality. Currently the West is in Zeno mode.
Better than discussing old shoes someone (not naming names) refuses to throw out.
OK we know it’s not Lizzie.
She would never throw out shoes.
Holy crap. The Project running a piece about the US economy booming thanks to Trump’s tax cuts. Of course they had to spoil it by interviewing The Kouk and the Mincing Poodle.
I chuckled.
To every meat there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
Pork is for Christmas.
Lamb is for Straya Day.
The end.
The boom is Obumbi’s legacy.
Quite fitting that the project is serving up some mutton this week in the form of Mrs Pirate Pete.
I imagine some kid getting his todger sliced up by an old guy whacking it with a rock on the big screen before the ALPFL Grand Final would be a big step towards Reconciliation too.
Scrolled past Paul Murray on the TV in the motel.
He has Derryn Hinch on.
Please Derryn Hinch’s Second Liver – you know what you have to do and, believe me, your sacrifice will not go unnoticed.
Couldn’t be any worse than Meatloaf either.
..
Strangle Derwin in his sleep with his own small intestine?
Overburdened;
Jesus. That thought just made the hair on my arms stand up.
Mind you, I can’t imagine the need for methamphetamines for submariners.
Try being a gunner on a Fockewulf Condor doing a Meteorological run out into the Atlantic.
Yep. If your language can’t handle reality, you build one that can. Credit to Zeno, he did show that the existing language of Greek mathematics wasn’t up to the job. But the Pythagoreans had shown that too. They knew that the diagonal of the unit square didn’t have a length. Not in the rational numbers that they had. The story goes that making this fact public earned a death penalty.
That’s what happens when you can’t tell reality from the language you use to talk about it.
Climate “science”, then.
It bet this interview, did not pan out, the way the reporter wanted. And it got interesting when he started ‘interviewing’ her.
The French camera man turned his back quickly. And her, not long after.
John Constantine;
China is attempting to outflank all the SE Asian countries, which, if it succeeds in PNG, will put it in a very strong strategic position.
Docks and submarine pens in reach of the busiest waterways of the Asian area. What’s not to like?
From the Jerusalem Post:
PENCE’S [Jerusalem] SPEECH: WHAT WAS IN IT, AND WHAT WAS NOT
I’m glad the Israelis notice. Worth reading the rest.
From the Jerusalem Post:
PENCE’S [Jerusalem] SPEECH: WHAT WAS IN IT, AND WHAT WAS NOT
I’m glad the Israelis notice. Worth reading the rest.
We need a better class of smartarses.
Ones who can spell continuum, preferably.
🙂
My guess for Arky’s number is 56ish.
From the article above:
I’d almost forgotten just how insufferable the Obama people could be. Thank God we’re rid of them.
An earthquake off the coast of Alaska has a tsunami warning.
tfm, good news. Glad your in law has great people with her.
Irrational, transcendental or just a bit wacky?
A little from column A and a little from column B.
It’s a quote from Futurama.
Hawaii possibly affected.
I’ll bet some Hawaiians are going yaaaawwwn.
Not if the Hawaiian emergency centre hits the nuclear holocaust panic button by mistake, Leigh.
Actually, fatty Kim will end up shooting off one of his dodgy ballistic missiles, by sheer coincidence it’ll be heading straight for Maui, the alarm will sound and everyone will be going yaaaaawn.
Without John Kerry we couldn’t have enjoyed his shaggy dog story.
Curiously the explosion which launched the dog through the air to miraculously land uninjured on another boat did no damage to Kerry’s boat, injured none of Kerry’s crew and was unnoticed by other boat crews in the vicinity. However the story was accepted without question by the MSM.
His dog was called VC?
I felt a bit sorry for John Kerry.
He married a fat, ugly, crazy (but rich) bird.
Sad.
Not winning.
Kerry was a bit of a scamp in his ‘Nam days.
You can prise Quentin Dumpster off Aunty’s tit with a six figure payout but you can’t take the staff co-op mentality out of the man. The Dumpster tweets on The Donald.
China is attempting to outflank all the SE Asian countries, which, if it succeeds in PNG, will put it in a very strong strategic position.
Docks and submarine pens in reach of the busiest waterways of the Asian area. What’s not to like?
I made a similar comment last week or the week before, specifically regarding Simpson Harbour (Rabaul) and whether or not it is trafficable. If volcanic activity has abated and looks to continue that way, it would be a great position for a ‘rest and relaxation’ centre for the PLAN. They’d need something at Kavieng, of course.
Comments are scathing of Wolfe and Dumpster.
I think I could live just fine without Jim Courier.
Our erstwhile Treasurer was interviewed on 2GB today and almost gave President Trump some praise for lowering tax rates. Quickly moved on to say it was Congress who did it, and that’s why we must do it too.
To his credit, Morrison did say that companies who earn profit deserve to keep more of it that they do now.
Well, yeah, but look at the deal she got – her husband is granite-faced plonker whose voice is the most powerful sedative known to man, and has trademark peach-coloured ties. They both bring powerful weaknesses to the union.
He named a treasured pet after the enemy. All you need to know about the man’s allegiances, really.
Promos seem to be using the ‘Doris Day’ lens (vaseline).
Kerry was going to call the pooch Marxist Leninist Ho Chi Minh Thought, but he decided it was a bit of a mouthful.
For many Hawaiians the response will be “Surf’s up!”
Thanks for that vid, Steve trickler, great to hear an ordinary person being articulate and actually interested in the world, you’d have a good night out with some robust discussion with that bloke.
My Aussie day lamb will be long slow roast in the weber, leg of lamb covered with a thick chermoula paste. Can’t wait, yum.
So many things you can do with lamb.
Only one less than in New Zulland.
Ross Kemp on BBC knowledge channel, looking into the future of Australia, as laid out by the way the Chinese communist party operates mines in Mongolia.
Sitting in a tin bath, lowered by cable down an incline to the coalface, the bath is filled up with coal by human pit ponies and winched up.
Thirty dollars a day.
Be chasing jobs like that when Veneztralia comes around.
The forty year old wymynsys arrested for sending money to their Isis rape dungeon jihadis?.
Federal government employee.
How secure are the passwords on post-it notes in her office?.
Our Isis rape jihadi federal employment program is our strength.
Comrades maaaaates.
Please John, I feel naked when you don’t do it…
Please. They are Doc boots. Still have them. I did put them in a wheelie bin once but rescued them and found a cobbler to fix them (for about $180).
It’s a Terry Pratchett joke, Winston.
From a volunteer firie – Fucking arson in this country should carry the death penalty.
Sliante, to all on the Cat.
Trump proves again that even when an enemy is half-nice to you, well, that’s no reason to cozy up. On the contrary, it’s a perfect time to escalate with a fresh attack:
See also:
Does that guy plays for keeps or what. I love it.
This ones for calli.
Oh great. Clementine Ford has a fresh column up.
And she isn’t raving on about how much she hates men!! Wow.
This week she has a new target:
Why nobody is more judgemental than middle class mothers.
This is an oft-repeated, gutless tactic in all Ford columns.
When she’s firing the generalised hate-Uzi (which is always), she lamely telegraphs that she’s excluding black and brown people from her assault. This is supposed to signal depth or tolerance or something. What it actually signals is the belief that black and brown folks are not culpable for their faults. Because, you know, they’re child-like.
Yes, really:
Victoria’s top cop says it’s NOT the job of police to fix Melbourne’s African gang problem and says the violence is a ‘social issue’.
If you want to know why the FISA memo isn’t being released immediately, here’s why – from a congresscritter who wants it released. He says that he’s read it and that every member of Congress who’s read it thinks it needs to be made public as a matter of urgency.
Oh great. Clementine Ford has a fresh column up.
I’m not sure that I can reconcile the term fresh together with Clementine Ford.
Shapiro calls Jim Jordan “congressperson.”
Dear oh dear.
Super Bowl LII “teaser“.
Brilliant and very funny.
Not throwing out old shoes is CL re his ancient RM Williams.
Gab has been on at him for years about that.
I must admit that I also like many of my older shoes. Finding storage for them all is getting difficult. I have resolved to throw some out tomorrow, now that the issue has been raised. I’ve already got rid of some with heels too high to transit the human frame. Others of that genre I have kept, mostly just to look at. Then I shall move on to handbags, as I have far too many of them, although none of the $25k sort that Mal bought for Lucy’s birthday a year or so ago. Perhaps Lucy is like some I know, who have locked display cases for their handbags. Mine are jumbled on top of each other on two wardrobe shelves.
That life-changing lizard skin bag is long gone – it was one of my initial forays into the world of real handbags when I was a first made a copywriter and realized my cheap plastic Westie bags would not cut it with clients wives for their ‘at home’ cocktails in Point Piper. As with my croc skin bag of yore, the reptilian lizard scales sort of fell open after a while, although both beat the vinyl and leather of today for longevity and stylishness. I have five black leather handbags of good make in excellent condition but which I consider dull. I hereby resolve to get rid of them too. St. Vinnies will do well tomorrow. I’ll keep the little black Oroton one though for sentimental reasons. Like CL and his RMs.
There is nothing more pathetic than white person racist against whites. Seriously.
Lizzie, you’re mixing up my boot situations.
I throw out RMs with no sentimentality.
I won’t throw out my beaten, paint-splattered and hammered Doc Marten work boots.
Would-be Miss Italy contestant Alessia Spagnulo (24) targeted with abuse for appearing with her baby at casting call. In The Australian and The Times.
Italian – La Presse Verso Miss Italia, una mamma in passerella: insulti per Alessia Spagnulo – has a better picture of the scene.
Sad. When you think of Italy, you think of a culturally ingrained love of bambini.
But demographers now say Italians will be a minority in Italy by 2080.
Crowder is good for a laugh.
Ha!
CL, I ran the Italian through Google translate out of curiosity. I got this:
hzhousewife
#2617783, posted on January 23, 2018 at 11:05 pm
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Hello. Enjoy the lamb.
Add mint sauce.
Christ, we’re all in bed early tonight!
Sweet dreams, little kitties.
Skip to 1min 25sec here to watch a bunch of losers run down the system that provides them with the highest standard of living and liberty in the ME, and instead agitate to return Israel to a state of Shitholistan.
Those chaps in the white yarmulkes are very efficient, are they not?
Apparently I missed another series of Testes’ international relations lectures today. Oh well.
No doubt there’ll be another one tomorrow.
The Luke Buckmaster reviewer who was scathing about Crocodile Dundee has form. Here he is reviewing the movie once before. And of course it shows up Aussies for the rubes they are:
But despite (or perhaps because of) their stupidity the jokes inadvertently tap into something deeper: a kind of Australian who still exists and a country that accommodates them. By turn, the film comments – however unintentionally – on rural Australia as a place populated by flaky people who have little understanding of the world around them.
Max Hastings on the Russian threat:
…this is because, with the NHS and welfare budgets almost devouring the State, a weak British government flinches from responding realistically to the challenges to our national security.
The Treasury lavishes resources only on the intelligence services, because terrorists represent a daily threat to ordinary British people on our streets.
Yet, as General Carter said last night, terrorists cannot destroy our society, whereas the Russians pose a major threat to the West’s stability.
Read more
Meanwhile in Melbourne:
Less than two years after moving to Melbourne to pursue a dream job, Elena Morgan now feels forced to find a new home, having become one of the latest victims of a wave of street attacks that have engulfed the Victorian capital.
The 25-year-old department store employee says she was waiting for a bus on one of Melbourne’s busiest streets on January 9 when she was set upon by three women who repeatedly punched her and tried to push her into the path of oncoming traffic.
The attack, in Hoddle Street, East Melbourne, at 7.25am, ended only after a passing bus driver stopped his vehicle and intervened. “I was fearing for my life,” she said. “They were just angry, they wanted to pick a fight and they could see that I was an easy target.”
Ms Morgan spoke to The Australian on the same day Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton said police were locking up “as many we can” to stop street gang attacks that have rocked the city over December and January.
Victoria Police yesterday released CCTV images of a separate group of women wanted for questioning after an attack inside a lift at Southbank on New Year’s Day.
Two of Ms Morgan’s three alleged assailants, who were all of African appearance, were arrested by police within hours of the attack. Victoria Police confirmed that the pair had been at an out-of-control party the previous night that police had dispersed. Each is charged with attempted robbery and assault.
Ms Morgan said she was chatting on the phone to her father in Sydney and clutching a Gucci handbag when the three teenage women made a beeline for her and demanded she get off her phone.
When she refused, they repeatedly punched her in the head and tried to shove her onto the road.
Transdev bus driver James Urquhart stopped his vehicle when he noticed Ms Morgan clinging onto the bus stop as the teens surrounded her.
As he jumped out and went to check on her, the teens fled. He ushered her into the bus and contacted Transdev’s control centre which phoned the police and ambulance.
He then told passengers the service would be delayed as he waited for police to arrive, and encouraged them to transfer to another bus behind them.
The ordeal left Ms Morgan with head injuries and spinal bruising. Her father listened to the entire attack on the phone.
Ms Morgan praised Mr Urquhart for his quick thinking and springing to her aid. She also praised police for apprehending two of the women but said more action was needed against street gangs responsible for a string of violent and destructive acts across Melbourne this summer.
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Martin Trumble wants to save his soul by throwing another $60 million of other people’s money at The Little Reef That Could — the inspiration for Larry Pickering’s first cartoon of 2018 and his latest rant: Stop playing god with our money, Mr Turnbull, and let the crown of thorns do its job
Paul Zanetti on the same subject.
A.F. Branco #1.
A.F. Branco #2.
Glenn McCoy #1.
Glenn McCoy #2.
Henry Payne.
Randy Bish (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review).
Miguel Cordova (Oakland Post) has Down Under on his mind.
Nate Beeler.
Mike Lester.
There’s no new Michael Ramirez cartoon today, but there is a fantastic interview he did last month in Hawaii with his friend Kathy Nance at the local community media centre. It runs 15 minutes and covers his relationship with US national politics and it’s illustrated with a selection of his best work.
Mystery real-life Rosie the Riveter dies
My sympathies to your avatar Calli.
Tom, the link died on me after a few minutes. Maybe I’m running low on data, maybe there’s something wrong with it.
Ps. Thanks again for the toons.
Britain and France are both making noises about cracking down on fake news.
Any crackdown here would have to start with ABC and Fairfax.
Sea levels to remain stable. The weight of all that water from melting glaciers and icecaps caused by global warming, has seen a dramatic shift of the sea bed in the Gulf of Alaska (Once known as an earthquake.) This new depression may even be large enough to effect a fall in sea-levels world wide.
Police probably know who organised it, but getting proof? A smart lawyer there to help the accused.
If it is reported, it is probably fake.
Absolutely classic – love it – Thank you Tom
Tom – good coverage this morning – thank you
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/cathy-newman-abuse-channel-4-jordan-peterson-metoo-backlash-latest-a8170031.html
Pravda were unavailable for comment…
Margo Robbie scores an Oscar Nomination – she is a very beautiful woman I just hope she doesn’t open her mouth about politics. I wonder if she put out to get along?
Stratford today reports that Putin’s Russia is becoming short term poorer in its drive for self sufficiency, but will become long term independent.
In Australia, we see our oligarchs and corruptocracy simply deindustrialise the country, export our manufacturing capacity to transnational looting cartels, then import everything from the Chinese communist party.
Our autocrats become richer in the short term, but a balkanized nation of nations, powered by godless commie solar panels and a united nations decreed population Ponzi scheme can have no future independence.
The world bank will bail us out eventually.
For terms and conditions.
Comrades.
Max Hastings on the Russian threat:
…this is because, with the NHS and welfare budgets almost devouring the State, a weak British government flinches from responding realistically to the challenges to our national security.
The Treasury lavishes resources only on the intelligence services, because terrorists represent a daily threat to ordinary British people on our streets.
Yet, as General Carter said last night, terrorists cannot destroy our society, whereas the Russians pose a major threat to the West’s stability.
The Choom Gang were available for comment.
“Hey dudes, chill out, the 80’s want their cold war back”.
Jaws Down Under
Just wait until Clemmie trips over some Tiger Mums.
BeauGan at 5.47am, the YouTube link works fine for me.
And given that her child is a son I’m she’s realised the only fluidity about gender is the manner of it’s elimination.
Apparently the autobiography of Mike Carlton will be published this year – one comment suggests it should be called: Out from Under a Rock: Diary of a Slater
This will be most upsetting for the Ponds Institute, whose highly scientific online poll found 99% of Australians want the date changed immediately:
99% – how amazing is that?
Local councils must obviously begin seriously reallocating resources to increase the proles understanding of the consequences of racism and colonialism and the ability of the State and its self appointed council Mouths of Sauron to crush those on the wrong side of history.
Quite low, by the standards of North Korean democracy.
Forget North Korea, ISIS, satanic Globalisation rumours. The ultimate horror is upon us. There’s an avocado shortage!
Worked for me too this time. Dunno what went wrong the first two times.
It was very good. Ramirez is a smart man and sees what’s there. I think he may be underestimating Trump and the level of corruption. And perhaps also the quasi-religious acceptance of leftism by the political class and their stooges.
News you won’t hear about on TheirABC.
Justin Trudeau tells Davos: tackle inequality or risk failure (of the glorious revolution)
Canadian prime minister says employing more women is the smart thing to do (to fast track global communism)
Apologies, CL. I just popped in on spec for 5 mins late last night and didn’t much read upthread.
Of course it is your old docs that have been the bone of contention with Gab.
And your habit of not reading upthread also. 🙂
After Justin Trudeau hands his job over to a woman and retires, I’ll consider doing the same.
The security protecting the good and the great at Davos.
Men with guns and fences?.
Why not go all wymynsys for the security at this most exclusive and agenda setting of forums?.
[We can just imagine Australias giddy with excitement delegationl, they mightn’t know what they just signed, but they feel that they agree with it completely.]
What a brilliant idea, Julie bishop.
The Ponds Institute left-leaning? A vile slur. The Institute contains a carefully balanced selection of former Greens staffers.
David L doing good works in parliament, Cory Bernardi too, report in today’s OZ:
If the issue is so important a short series of bullet points on one sheet of paper would surely have been sufficient to alert MP’s to ‘key cultural issues’ that may a big stretch have some relevance to MP’s. This idea has to go: the belief that it takes half a day of someone’s time, plus biscuits and morning tea, and considerable expense when all costs are counted, to simply gain a small amount of mostly useless information.
If Trump funds the dreamers from existing refugee funding, and cuts united nations refugee immigration by the number of dreamers, the net effect could be zero [ take years to even up.]
Cut the corrupt immigration lottery, which only exists to transform the polity, cut the birth tourism for citizenship rort, cut chain migration, watch robotics and artificial intelligence fill in the unskilled job market and away they go.
The Chinese communist party have done one exceptional thing, somehow the Chinese wool processing sector has developed improvements that enable them to make big profits from processing wool of a short length that wasn’t in demand until recently.
Had a beer at a mates place with a few blokes last night and one fresh market report was of twenty dollars a kilo for wool that was shorn at six months, rather than the traditional twelve months.
Old mate is going straight out and buying another tractor on the strength of it.
Also, today in the Oz – some sense at last emerging in Victoria:
2GB report Sydney train vote is rigged to support the strike.
The murderer of criminal lawyer Ho Ledinh yesterday at Bankstown had a cunning disguise.
He was wearing a fluorescent yellow high-visibility shirt.
I’d believe that. Let’s look at some issues that have surfaced recently.
No overtime tomorrow because today’s vote will be too late to organise overtime – I call BS on that claim.
Hundreds of train drivers doing consistent overtime is necessary for the network to operate efficiently – this one smacks of union pressure to limit the number of drivers so overtime can enrich those currently employed.
Any half-way decent manger could find ways of increasing the driver workforce. Giving intelligent retirees part time or casual work is one way.
Nadal and Djokovic are carrying repetitive use injuries with no cure but rest.
Every sports pundit had Federer (five years older) dead and buried a few years ago, who’s laughing now?
Perhaps they are slowly embracing the concept of a free market.
Yesterday I read of the huge wages being offered to airline pilots in order to encourage them to relocate to China and fly for the Chinese airlines.
FIFY