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Oh dear, Arky, Phrasing indeed. Sorry about that.
I doubt if ‘lower garden’ would have been any better though.
And our garden is divided into two: front and rear.
See, it is all very difficult once the mind is in the dirt track.
I was wrong about the chicoms bribing our political orcs with brown paper bags full of fivers.
Completely wrong.
As we see from today’s nsw announcements, we see the chicoms actually make the payments to politicals using plastic Aldi bags full of fifties.
Will do better next time.
Comrades.
(Willing to kowtow for regular hundred grand cash payments though.)
They probably wouldn’t go to confession and the rare few that did wouldn’t get absolution or forgiveness. The Padre hearing would advise them to confess to police before the sin could be forgiven.
Not very environmentally friendly of them.
I don’t know Lizzie. I went down the stability route and ended up with two gorgeous children, a dog, a nice house and cosy existence in the ‘burbs. Only it turned out wifey (very smart, cultured & funny) is a lady who would prefer the company of other ladies, and has an unpleasant and highly aggressive aversion to talking about anything. The latter issue is the far worse of the two – means nothing can ever be discussed. And I mean nothing. (I come from a stable, happy background so am deeply committed to keeping my own family together and happy….but I must admit there are days when I figure I would have had a happier life with the exotic Thai dancer I was engaged to 25 years ago.)
Agreed Carpe.
I’ll take it one step further though. Someone already pointed out that this proposed law only applied to Catholic Priests, rather than to say defense lawyers, counselors, mental health professionals, etc. which sounds decidedly un-evenhanded.
But what really strikes me as off-kilter is that the proposed law restricts itself to reporting child abusers. What about reporting your basic assaulter? R-apist? Murderer? Tax evader?
I mean why not go whole hog on this one as long as they are at it? Simply because they are (as usual) surfing the tide of immediate public angst. Legislating by emotion, not logic.
Was there a birdstrike that was cleaned up? The comments have moved backwards.
..
Have you tried shaving all your body hair and driving an MX5?
I’ll post it again cos it’s pretty funny – a short clip of Alex Jones going off in typical AJ style against closeted sleazebag CNN beta Brian Stelter.
Why are all of CNN’s male anchors batty boys? Fredo is the token straight.
The legal opinion offered to the nsw political orc walking around with a hundred grand in chicom cash fifties thrust into an Aldi shopping bag was simple:
Don’t talk about it, don’t make notes recording it, and she’ll be right.
How often has more sophisticated payment been made to more rat cunning bastards and been covered up with silence?.
I reckon we are to the stage of offering bounties for information leading to conviction on Treason offences.
We want to see regular online auctions of the worldly goods of corrupt politicals, to pay the dobbers.
Then we sell their kidneys back to the chicoms.
Comrades.
For once – amazingly – I agree with Daniel Andrews re an appeal against Haberfield getting bail. But how does he square this with his and his AG’ s insistence that the OPP (chief solicitor Mr John Cain III) is independent and apolitical? And that he and his Stalinist p3rv3rt thuggocracy had nothing to do with the Pell show trial?
The massive Democratic presidential field could begin its inevitable reduction this week with only half of the current candidates set to make the cut for next month’s debate.
Australian politicals have a Pavlovian response to activism, and a slavering hunger for cash in bags.
Until these base responses can be tempered with a very real fear of the consequences of getting caught, we will continue to suffer scumbags in power.
Simply, the first conviction for treason sees you donate one kidney to be transplanted to save a kids life.
Second treason offence?.
Second kidney donated.
Comrades.
I know that fella from a previous life
…in a good way
seems like yesterday he was doing his jurisprudence
‘[email protected] Bible’ Tackles Health And Politics In A Guide To Female Physiology
Hey, women: Dr. Jen Gunter wants you to understand your own [email protected]
nobody has single use plastic bags anymore
It is all the more terrifying since he appears to be straight.
Brian and Jamie Stelter welcome second child, son named Story Moon
And if the GayBC, which is vociferous in its support for Andrews’ Stalinist laws on the seal of confession, let it finally, after 44 years, cooperate with the police over the identify of Richard Neville’s p3d3rast mates to whom it have a PR platform courtesy of Allan Ashbolt’ Marxist kindergarten on Lateline in 1975.
Oh, bit that’s different! Protection of journalists’ sources. Progressive heroes of the s3xual revolution.
As Hendo likes to remind us, there is only one major organisation in Australia that openly endorses p3d0ph1lia: the ABC, which has never retracted the statement of Whitlam’s hand-picked chairman in 1975 supporting Neville.
Chris – The way I discourage crows is to make sure there’s no food they can get. Unfortunately crows took the last two peewee chicks – and their next batch is about to hatch. The crow family hasn’t been around lately, which is a good sign.
I don’t put out food for the various birds – the local rule is from the hand or go hungry (with an exception for ones learning). The crows are attracted by the other birds especially the currawongs, but don’t get any food and tend not to stay as they also get chased by the kookas, peewees and noisies. The noisy miners are the most effective. Not allowed to poison crows, they’re protected.
I can’t help but like Alex Jones.
But ripping a child to pieces in utero is legal.
What a sick society.
German troops wait 8 years for new combat boots
Since 2016 the German military — the Bundeswehr — has planned to provide troops with new combat boots. Now soldiers must wait longer to be properly equipped, something one member of parliament described as “grotesque.”
German troops will have to wait until 2022 to receive new combat boots due to “limited production capacity in industry,” media reported.
Bloody hell, dot. Naive much? From your article:
Sunny and Moon? Ummm…
You don’t say. Funny, that.
More than once I watched the news and said to Mrs L “He better be fucking guilty and they better get him cold on it”.
Constantly running “appeals to the public” for information they already had about the car, whatever?
Designed to put the weights on Borce Ristevski.
It gets to court and the judge pulls the rug on the Prosecution over their bwilliant stwategy and rules big chinks of their case inadmissible.
Borce pleads to manslaughter and gets 9 with 6 minimum, I think.
Big chinks = big chunks.
Don’t want to upset Beijing.
Alex Jones is right about Stelter, too. The MSM is the enemy, and Stelter is the perfect, precise embodiment of all that is wrong with the MSM.
A senior Labor staffer has told an inquiry he knew it was “unusual” an Aldi shopping bag full of cash was allegedly delivered to party headquarters by a Chinese billionaire in 2015.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-27/labor-staffer-tells-icac-he-was-asked-to-count-bag-full-of-cash/11453344
Comrade Maaaaaates.
This, from the army that invented “Blitzkrieg?”
Micallef featuring mime clowns, plagiarist.
Avid Cat reader IMHO.
Stelter is a Tom Parsons type.
Like Monty.
From the Oz — paywalled.
…..but not unprecedented?????
Utopia:
“… haters”
“You mean critics?”
The Left can’t distinguish between the two?
AJL, the asx listed company fracking in Britain halves in shareprice after a 2.9 richter scale tremor is recorded in its fracking operational area.
https://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/news/17863605.conservatives-make-historic-pledge-fracking/
Social licence.
Benedictine monastery to open in Tasmania:
The monastery, known as the Notre Dame Priory, will be home to seven monks, as well as their Prior — or leader — Father Pius Mary Noonan.
Confusion reigns, but then again it is Tasmania!
Link
Isn’t this just proroguing parliament for the duration of the normal conference recess? What is outrageous?
And speaking of the stranger states of Oz, there’s this in SA:
…the apprentice had previously been tied to a ladder with duct tape, had his arms and face covered with silicon and permanent marker and had been locked in a shipping container.
Then his supervisor: squirted flammable liquid onto the boot of a 19-year-old apprentice — who the ABC has chosen not to name — at the worksite. He then set the teen alight in what the tribunal accepted was “horseplay which got out of hand”.
But the supervisor was not done: “Chenoweth followed him and squirted some more liquid onto the crotch area of the complainant. It was at this point the complainant became particularly scared … so he ran away.”
Fined $21,000.
Minister Robert Stivey buys 12 chapels to restore in Wales
A church minister has bought 12 derelict valleys chapels with a plan to reopen them as places of worship.
The Rev Robert Stivey, a congregationalist minister from Treherbert in Rhondda Cynon Taff (RCT), believes he’s spent up to £200,000 so far.
His latest acquisition, Calfaria Chapel in Aberdare, cost just £25,000.
Six of the chapels are in the Cynon Valley, three in the Rhondda Valley and three in the Merthyr valley.
They are mostly former Baptist chapels.
The minister said it was an “act of faith”.
Arky – thankyou for the kind words. Alas, the only thing I shave besides my face, is my left ankle, and then only before the occasional physio session. As for driving an MX-5….I own neither a fur stole, or a rainbow scarf, so it’s out of the question.
Like I implied, it’s not the (enforced) celibacy I mind, it’s MrsP’s inability to talk about anything without flying into a rage. Good burghers like Lizzie aside, chicks are on the whole fucking woeful at communication.
NASA has captured satellite images of a giant pumice raft drifting near Tonga, revealing the rubble slick was once roughly the size of Manhattan, in New York City.
Utopia:
Their same token male Injun comic actor who pops up regularly on the Gummint payroll.
Pasty with jelly belly, in character.
Comrade.
Top Ender
#3142913, posted on August 28, 2019 at 9:17 pm
Das boot kamp?
A simple yet effective test when you’re about six weeks into what you think could be a relationship.
If a ‘conversation’ starts with ‘You never’ or ‘You always’, walk – and walk quickly.
Once of the great truisms of life: Women hook up with men hoping they change, but they don’t.
Men hook up with women hoping they never change, but they do.
What is is with bakeries and LGBTQLMNOP
Russian Bakery Fined for Sign Banning Gay Customers
A Russian bakery in Siberia has been fined $150 for hanging a sign at its entrance that banned LGBT people from entering.
In 2017, a bakery in St. Petersburg owned by prominent Orthodox activist German Sterligov came under fire from LGBT activists for hanging a similar sign in its window to ban gay customers.
AJ Lucas .
UK government can override local councils on fracking. Nobody would know about these tremors if it wasn’t for operators’ self-reporting.
But media will report that they “admitted” it as if some intrepid reporter outed them.
Not so great for disaffected “hookers” one might say. A good think truisms are seldom true.
Hence many hook up with sociopathic losers?
Great stuff Boris Johnson.
Onwards!
the Crazy Old Mole just turned her chair around because I was ignoring her gibber about school, bad drivers, and how she’s feeling bloated
I showed her why … TheDailyTimewaster
She responded by telling me what to type into the search engine.
I told her to fuck off
She says, “you dont need to search what I want”
I says, ” I know”
she’s gone to bed
luv her but … ffs
Matrix,
Put the tennis on.
once a year mate … thats all.
Personally I’d like to hear more goss about Lizzie’s life. Lizzie? Over to you.
What’s BoJo up to?
Chapelle is a genius.
This is the smartest bit of comedy you’ll see:
https://mobile.twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1166677996792512513
Man he can fuck with his audience.
I wonder if Hustlers will be any good.
BoJo has prorogued parliament.
The Queen is now in charge of Brexit and Her Majesty wants out.
Johnson has done as he said he would. Magnificent bastard.
Wow. BoJo is putting Trump to shame with that move.
Members of an Ohio congregation are inviting the community to a Sept. 8 worship service officially welcoming one of the few openly transgender Baptist ministers as their new pastor.
IT, don’t celebrate yet. It would be good if BoJo was playing hardball negotiating for a relatively simple free trade deal, but it seems as though he’s pushing for Theresa May’s deal minus the Irish backstop. That’s a crappy deal. There may still be a no-deal Brexit because the EU can’t adjust to BoJo’s 11th hour, poison pill-stuffed negotiating tactics, but that’s a helluva risk to run.
Emboldened by Trump?
It can and only will be No Deal Brexit.
It’s what the Queen wants and what the people want.
Thy will be done.
Without doubt the most incisive comedian of our time.
Daylight second.
His Clayton Bigsby skits are brilliant.
They side-swipe so many people simultaneously ot is not funny.
Well, it is funny, but you know what I mean.
Not so fast, Boris worshippers.
As I predicted, he is shilly-shallying about the terms of the exit. Latest news is that he will agree to something like what the unlamented Theresa May was offering.
Boris wouldn’t know a principle if it bopped him on the scone, and changes his mind depending on who he last spoke to.
Nigel is the only hope of decent leadership in the UK.
4th Reich stymied by Boris
WTF?
Have these two morons been living under a rock for twenty years.
Johanna of course has no idea what she is talking about
Farage is a huckster and a spiv.
I was looking at those reports earlier. It appears to be from this unnamed underwater volcano. It also erupted in 2001 producing similar pumice rafts.
You’re more degenerate and useless to the nation than a flaming oxford street prancing leather wearing fag.
Notice how the “whoop-whoops”, “yeah mans” and “damn right dudes”, went all silent when he delivered the quid pro quo?
waste of a good ladder
Plenty here
Boris Johnson asks Queen to suspend Parliament
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-49493632
No confusion, Top Ender. It’s a monastic name and he appears to have a particular devotion to Our Lady.
This does not make sense.
Leather is not flammable.
Unless the person is wearing vinyl, then they could be ablaze, I suppose.
When I was younger and just slightly prettier, Gunnamatta beach would have small pile of pumice all over the place.
Haven’t seen it much lately
If I hear or read the the words “Our Democracy” one more time from the losers in “Our Democracies” who think they get to run the joint despite being the losers…
Farage’s core skills are drinking pints, whipping the lads up over Brussels and telling the Euroflogs to go fuck themselves.
Unsure how he would go in Number 10.
BTW, a new Benedictine monastery anywhere is a cause for celebration. I’d love one in my area, they can make Norcia brew. Another can open up down the road and make Roquefort cheese.
What colour was it?
FFS, IT. You can’t be a Brexit enthusiast without giving Nigel Farage his due. No Farage = no Brexit. It’s as simple as that.
I dunno, artie. He’s kept to his core beliefs all throughout his political career. His party platform, outside leaving the EU, was kind of so so, but his core promise and desire to leave has been very consistent.
Chechnya Inaugurates ‘Europe’s Biggest Mosque’
Named after the Prophet Mohammed, the marble-decorated mosque has capacity for more than 30,000 people and has been described by the Chechen authorities as the “largest and most beautiful” mosque in Europe.
Huh?
I’m not seeing the downside here.
Hi, twodicks!
How’s life in the new monastery?
Our democracies.
The Farage speech in the European Parliament in front of a visiting Angela Merkel is stuff of legend.
And no doubt still on YouTube.
Russia’s Chechnya inaugurates what it says is Europe’s largest m0sque
Named after the Prophet M00hammed, the marble-decorated mosque has capacity for more than 30,000 people and has been described by the Chechen authorities as the “largest and most beautiful” m0sque in Europe.
Farage is like Hanson and the Greens
These people never want power, but instead enjoy being the stone throwers on the side.
That’s their bag. Agitators have their uses but they are useless at actually enacting anything.
black, charcoal, silvery-grey …. black
‘oxford street’
*Oxford Street*
Because it’s a title, i.e. the name of something, you use capital letters. But only the first letter.
Matrix, I also remember seeing pumice at Gunnamatta and the nearby beaches as a young ‘un. I guess that underwater volcanic eruptions are fairly common, perhaps just usually not as big as this latest one.
Farage is the most consequential British politician alive. Assuming you aren’t a leftist, I don’t understand why this would be a controversial statement.
Johanna of course has no idea what she is talking about
Farage is a huckster and a spiv.
Agree about Farage.
I suspect BoJo is the lesser huckster and spiv.
Playing “Do you remember” with the Memsahib – great lunch, in a restaurant in Glasgow, years – the waiter was six feet tall, be-turbaned – the very image of the pride of the sub – Continent – and an accent that was pure Billy Connolly..
That Warthog Merkel is in charge now.
The Prussian aristocracy is long gone, as is their ethos of “defend the state & maintain dignity”.
Yeah, but his work is done.
A sterling attribute for any politician.
The world would be a far better place if politicians stopped “enacting” things.
We have way too many laws as it is.
Knuckles.
This place already has a glut of boomer military fetishists who are terrified of girls and so never produced a family.
The others are a lot more interesting than you though, even your shit posting is boring.
I reckon the pumice was on the front beach at Rosebud and Dromana as well.
just cant trust my memory
I assumed is was something to do with coal and kilns and lime
https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket/australia/australian-cricket-great-doug-walters-lifts-the-lid-on-drinking-record-on-trip-to-london/news-story/37f83ad79204a970de9da6e15bb682f3
Big Australia has chosen to genocide this culture, because our political orcs have a slavering appetite for aldi plastic bags full uf fifties, handed over by chicom billionaire property developers.
We have tossed Dougie walters into the sausage mincer and churned out napalm clad, lead plumbed dogbox apartment ponxis and ranatunga ibn miandad captains-in-waiting as a replacement culture instead.
Comrade Maaaaaaates.
BoJo’s time to shine now.
Hopefully Nige won’t be required.
Time will tell, you poofy fans of Boris’ fluffy mop top.
He has a consistent record of inconsistency, although he is partial to greenie sentiments ATM because his current girlfriend is. Hence he signed up to a suicidal agenda to de-carbonise Britain by 2050.
I bet you were among those here who thought that Julie Bishop would be a great PM.
But Walters revealed on Fox Cricket’s The Cricket Tragic, that he doesn’t count Boon or Marsh’s record, due to the pair having a head start due to living in different states.
“I think 44 (beers) was my record,” Walters told cricket tragic Gus Worland.
“And Marshy went over and had 45 but as I say, you only set the bar for someone to jump over. Marshy I say to him, I don’t give you the record. I started from Sydney, you started from Melbourne. You went Melbourne (to) Sydney, to London.
“And I don’t give credit to Boony either because he started in Launceston. He went Launceston, Melbourne, Sydney to London.
“We didn’t count the ones we had on ground. We only called those practice sessions, so we were in a pretty good mood by the time we got there.”
Oh, shit. Twodicks, I completely forgot to mention the boomer bit when you ingeniously unmasked me the other night in a partial demonstration of your Mrs. Marple-esque detective skills.
I am in fact a Boomer. Born in 1947 I was, in a miner’s shack outside Toongabbie. We didn’t have much. I had to brush my hair with my fingers, and had to wear several live ducks on the days when it was so cold you had to finger yourself to have a piss.
After carrying the family sheep to school, barefoot on Broken Glass Road I got a job as a chemist’s boy, thereby saving all my thripenny bits until I bought a small newsagency, married, and had six children who all died of polio. Then I went to Vietnam, but you’ve already heard about that.
On my return I became head of an emerging mining concern called Rio Tinto. I retired at 37 with several dozen houses and drive Bentleys until they run out of fuel, then buy another one.
I enjoy participating in the Cat discussions, and would particularly like to hear more from ill-informed poltroons who insist on commenting on matters they have no experience in.
So keep ’em coming, twodicks. Does my old heart good, it does.
Our democracy.
Fair shake of the sauce bottle Johanna.
Next you’ll be claiming somebody here thought Turnbull was a potentially great PM.
It seems so long ago that fake “conservatives” used to get on their knees for corporate power.
Remember the heady days of the 2010’s? So long ago.
Today:
Next we’ll find out there’s a nice Afghanistan connection to these companies and the individuals in those companies involved in creating the opium crisis.
You’ve got this all wrong. BoJo’s PM because of the spectre of Farage, and if there’s one thing that’ll drive Boris to shine wrt Brexit, it’s the spectre of Farage.
Nige was and is absolutely required until Brexit is delivered.
LOOXURY!!! Used to live in a miners shack, on the Rabbit Proof Fence. Mass murderers an optional extra!
“Snowy Rowles? Top young bloke, do anything for you…..”
The last of the old seasons dry hay has been placed in the counting out yard at the shearing shed for the fresh shorn sheep. Once the nights frost predictions were locked in this afternoon, we changed over and crutched a mob instead, but the trap remains that the available shearing slot is just for this week is overlapping with late lambing because of the heatwave at joining is overlapping with showery afternoons and is overlapping with frigid overnight chills.
Plus the old sheephound is allowed to sleep inside on frosty nights and she snores like i did before the cpap machine.
Plus the last booze in the house is an aromatic gin with Sloeberry and Bitters, handed over as a christmas present by a cheeky chick i used to know better.
Comrades.
An old PSA
Don’t drop the pheromone soap.
Do You Have Criminal Game?
Economic Invincibility
Published on Jun 10, 2019
Donald Trump Jr was the bronze medal for Vannessa Kay (Trump). I guess he wasn’t alpha enough….he didn’t maintain frame…not having criminal game is just a cope…noting that criminals turning women on is hybristophilia is a cope…
Next you’ll be claiming somebody here thought Turnbull was a potentially great PM.
Who could possibly be so out of touch with the real world to ever think that? Surely by now they’d admit their error?
Speaking of ill-informed:
‘who are terrified of girls and so never produced a family’
Two can play this game.
You’re None, aren’t you? What are your thoughts on Folau? Single mothers? P3ll? Dancing in public?
Our democracy.
Stix
Opioid derives from opium. It’s never been a secret. How about this novel idea. Adults make their own decisions or in this case help form a decision on what to use as medication with their doctors who then prescribe the medication.
The suit is meritless and we will find the award will be reversed.
The fucking temerity of these plaintiffs requesting compensation from the firm that simply made the drugs available through prescription is truly shocking.
And i note that nobody has ever done Dougie Walters Flies with Biggles as fanfiction.
Might take a bit more Sloeberry and Bitters Gin to fix this Travesty, but needs must.
How many cans could Algy get down?.
Comrades.
Get used to it John.
Drought, day time heat waves and frigid overnight chills is your future.
And your children’s.
And your grandchildren’s.
Tasmanian Alkaloids.
The same company that started producing opium for export from part of Tipperary Station, near Daly Waters in 2015.
Can you imagine if this extended to alcohol, sugar, trans fats or even caffiene?
You’re one up on me Dover – never heard of a bloke cleric calling themselves Mary before.
I am of course hoping the Benedictine monks start selling home-made Bénédictine, the king of Liqueurs. As I go down to Tassie often on rellie runs it will help ward off the cold.
Economists?
None/twodicks couldn’t spell either.
Coincidence? YOU BE THE JUDGE!!!!!
Our democracy.
Dean Jones mentions the cans.
Bald and his adventures in remote Russia. A world devoid of the young.
Economists don’t make mistakes.
When I was at uni there was a standard joke that in Economics exams they asked the same questions every year. But they changed the answers.
Knuckles I’m sorry I didn’t read any of that past the first line, too long.
I hear you Sydney siders will now be wrestled to the ground and fined for the act of watering your lawn.
New cruisers are taking to the streets.
The Adam 12s of hydration prevention to keep the piece.
The piece of hose out of your hand.
The government. ..lino….are still pumping hundreds of thousands of third world shit into this country and won’t build a dam.
Why should it when you cowtowing NSWelshies will just die of thirst.
If they can’t get you in the womb they’re still gonna get you.
You filthy white colonial trash.
Why bother? You never know how many abortions a wife/gf may have behind your back.
We’re talking about Australia, after all.
Sure, men are paying for the abortions – but against their will as net taxpayers.
S’ok, None.
The Cat (I’m told) is a broad church.
All those with goldfish attention spans welcome.
Our democracy.
This country!
Look at what you get for under a million in Portland. Sure, it needs refurbishment.
The aggressive marketing they’re talking about isn’t to the end user, it was to the doctors.
Doctors were prescribing drugs based on lies told to them by the manufacturers. It’s absolutely the manufacturers at fault, they knew what they were doing.
Also it turns out many doctors are shit.
After 52 cans from Sydney to London, Boony goes to the Fourex sponsors party and sinks pints afterwards.
This culture must be wiped from the face of the earth and be replaced with social credit culture.
Comrades.
Here’s a thought that’s crossed my mind and it’s been swirling around for a while now.
I’m NOT convinced yet, but I think there may be a possibility one of the reasons Australians suffer high home prices is also related to the fact that we’re a small population congregated around 5 or 6 lared cities and it’s the small population size that makes real estate more expensive. The reason is that satellite cities of the sort you have in America really don’t exist here. You can get a job.. a decent job.. in those smaller cities and also maintain a semblance of an urban life style. You can only achieve this through larger populations.
Interesting, JC.
I’m trying to think of a joint with a similar population across the same land mass, but the closest I can get is Siberia.
Never thought about that aspect.
Dot, don’t be a cuck all your life.
Venture outside of the bugman hive, find a nice girl in the suburbs and she’ll love you long time.
Opioids.
Still too early to replace them with medical marijuana because the Big Donors pharma aren’t set yet.
Wait for hezbollah to start channelling chicom fentanyl into big australia through the mexican cartels.
We could just switch over to non-fatal painkillers tomorrow, but the corrupt aldi-bag–full-of-fifties australian culture will not allow it.
So doctors never ever knew opioids are addictive, right? We’ve known only this for the past 150 year or so stix. If the Doc didn’t know this take it up with the fucking medical board.
List the lies.
Of course they knew what they were doing. They were making prescription drugs to kill pain and it would be assumed that after 150 years of history the American medical fraternity would know opium could be addictive. But here’s the problem… prescribing drugs… any drug for that matter… carries risk and that means their are trade offs.
See complaints to the medical board boards in each state.
It’s always about supply and demand JC.
Re property prices, that is.
Unfortunately, it’s probably next door to an Antifa clubhouse and the previous owners are buried in the garden.
Always is, along with price.
Outside of LA, Chicago, Greater DC, New York, Boston and SF, I’m hard pressed to think of a US city with intensely large populations. I read and hear of a lot of people moving out of say New York because the cost of living is so high going to places even as far out as the Dakotas. Our friends’ son moved to one of the Dokatas as a federal prosecutor and this kid was born and raised in NYC.
We don’t really have that choice here. How often do you hear of a person moving to Bendigo for work? I’m sure it happens but it’s so left field.
We don’t have the range of supply and therefore the choices are very limited.
The pool of marriageable women is incredibly small.
There is nothing wrong at all in not getting married and never having kids.
I professionally met a cute gal the other day that half honestly said she wanted a sugar dady.
FFS.
for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer…until death do us part.”
Not bloody likely. Even if I had the means, the High Cucks of Australia ruled that BFAs are pretty much null and void because they’re nearly always “oppressive”.
JC, there are a lot of different maps besides the one single map you look at.
It isn’t population, it is the fact that almost all of australia is uninhabitable to people like you.
Remember the big transaustralia drive from Melbourne to Adelaide that JC liveblogged as if it was the outback?.
That was all Inside Country, mostly two thousand dollar an acre farmland, except for the Three thousand dollar an acre stuff.
Australia is only acceptable living conditions for a hours drive out from the coast for most, two hours drive out from the coast for the adventerous.
Three thousand dollars a week is not enough money to get doctors or dentists or vets to go live three hours drive from the cities.
Australia is just a narrow strip of land, with uninhabitable sea on one side and uninhabitable wasteland on the other.
Comrades.
Had a younger asian woman I was sitting next to in the plane start chatting away being too friendly.
That hasn’t happened for a while.
Never had an asian I thought to myself.
Hm.
Id go on but I’m not Dr BG.
And don’t ou dare use a sprinkler or wash down your patio Sydneysliders, they’ll get you.
They’re cruising down your street now.
Starsky Singh and Hutch won’t accept a thousand apologies.
They are doing this while the dams, with the huge increase in population , are still at 50 percent.
Time for boxer to go to the glue factory and the pigs here couldn’t be arsed bullshitting o him.
LOl.. along with 45 missing persons….
I know I’m late to all this but I was travelling and I just can’t believe what sort of rubbish was used to justify jailing Pell. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.news.com.au/national/victoria/george-pell-makes-lastditch-bid-for-freedom-taking-his-case-to-the-high-court/news-story/ef2f6086ba4cdf225ea5c736859bf6ff
Weinberg was the only appeals judge with criminal experience and had been called back from his retirement to hear that appeal for that reason. The other male judge was associated with Liberty Victoria and you only need to look at that history to see how anti-catholic they have been. As for the woman charged I mean talk about phoning it in. Probably a quota girl. I haven’t read yet whethe Pell’s team has appealed to the High Court but he should and even if he loses the Vatican should just tell the Australian judiciary a f*** off. Time to call out these frauds.
Once the NBN is connected Australians will be able to live and work anywhere.
It’s going to be a game changer.
John C
We’ve been through this before. It may have been you, I can’t recall exactly. The person made the claim that only 10% of Australia is habitable. 10% of Australia, from memory, includes Italy, France and the UK in terms of land mass. Possibly with Germany thrown in.
This isn’t a claim for higher immigration. It’s simply an observation this could be a problem.
JC. The corruption between pharma companies and high level doctors – their “thought and opinion leaders” is well known.
Russell Portnoy is ground zero for redefining opioids as not particularly addictive in US medicine.
…
He was completely bankrolled by these companies.
Absolute corruption of the medical establishment.
These people and their puppet-master companies must pay.
Legalise weed.
PoliticoNT, all lives have stories. Sorry you can’t get that important conversation going, but sometimes moving beyond that is the best thing to do. There are marriages based on friendship alone, sometimes even with things unspoken and no dredging up the past; how you cope with that is your business. Some (most?) would discreetly turn to others for various comforts. The novel ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’ carries the story of two people in love who must by circumstance savor their limited opportunities for congress, but whose love lasts for their lifetime. PoliticoNT, whatever you do, the sake of the children though keep the marital friendship going, even should you eventually separate.
One of Lefty’s later women left him for another woman. Never good for a man’s ego even though he pretended it didn’t matter. Dirty rotten love, as the graffiti on the wall of Newtown’s churchyard used once to say. He’s been married twice since then and seems happy now in his third go at it.
It’s a difficult thing, is love. Hairy’s first wife, a rather dramatic lady, left him for another man, a theatrical chap, with poor Hairy no poet yearning for a garret, earning his crust having learned to code and risen in the ranks. When we met our stars aligned. We have been lucky, as we constantly tell each other. In some ways though, you make your own luck. Secret of happiness.
Something must have stopped us from developing multiple big inland regional cities like the US has ( they aren’t there because the government threw a lot of money at this or that place either)
Americans iirc are very mobile when it comes to job opportunities.
People do have to have jobs to go to too, don’t they?
You’ll fit right into the LDP dot!
If you feel you’ll need to rely on a contract to keep a girl with you for a long time, you’re probably not thinking about it the right way.
Oh okay, so you believe a someone cannot have a clear view who is also aligned with whom this person obtains his compensation or in this case partially so. Stix, welcome to the world of the Green left, where anyone who has ever received a payment from a fossil fuel company is therefore tainted and never allowed to speak.
Sorry, but I don’t buy this.
None Cardinal Pell’s team have announced they will be appealing to the high Court, if they are granted leave, of course.
Stix
What other choices are there in the pain killing category that work as well and are as cheap as opioids? Real question, as I have no idea.
The Fed shows their true colours:
Apolitical my arse. Audit the Fed, then disband them.
You are right dot.
Just as long as you aren’t a Catholic priest of course.
I really don’t know what’s changed in the US. In the mid 90’s I went to hospital ER and was admitted with excruciating fucking pain. They stuck me on opioids and had surgery the following couple of days.. after they found the problem. I asked for pain relief after the op and was refused any of the junk I was on because of its additive nature. How did this protocol change from then to now? I really don’t understand as they seemed really careful dispensing this junk.
This underlies your bellicose, goalpost-shifting degeneracy masquerading as “traditionalism”.
The above worked fine for prior generations. They worked out their differences because they couldn’t just get divorced on a whim. They could not afford emotional incontinence. Society and the courts did not entertain such nonsense.
JC the doctors were told that the particular type of opioid was non-addictive because it was slow release. That’s where Pharma is going to be nailed. However I find it hard to believe that doctors are so naive as to think that can be true. Surely they should have followed up on the relevant research. They probably did and that research into that particular compound was sponsored by and conducted by Big Pharma.
I still don’t excuse the doctors but the company has a huge problem because it committed fraud.
There are no real alternatives to opioids for pain. Cannabinoids are useful for some types of pain but they aren’t going to be as good as opioids. The other problem is people in general these days appear to be less pain tolerant.
Righto. I’m off to the farter.
To dream, perchance, of Big Pharma outwitting thousands of doctors who’ve studied for years by mentioning that prescribing every Tom, Gene and Doris high-end morphine for decades won’t make them addicted to it.
And every single one of them falling for it.
Apparently.
And was it?
Okay, so that’s the sticky part, right? That’s the part that says it all to some extent. There are trade offs. Here’s the problem though. Pain can be immeasurably terrible for people.
Read that link JC, it describes how how high level thought leaders (wined dined and paid by pahrma) did the rounds in the 90’s on the medical journals pushing the case that opioid addiction risk was overblown and, in parallel, that it was a legal risk to hospitals and doctors to *not* give maximal pain relief to patients.
And coincidentally at the same time brand new low addiction opiods suddenly appeared on the market and were aggressively pushed.
Look at this heavy hitter!
There is a very interesting book out by Nick Potter called the Meaning Of Pain.
I want to read it.
Controversial because of his methods and antagonism towards the medical profession.
Mitch M
There was a very big difference between in terms of how medicine is practiced here and in the US from experience. The best way I can describe my experience is that US doctors appear to be more “entrepreneurial” in their approach to solving a medical issue than Australian docs. Australian docs appear to follow more of a stricter protocol than they do or did there. I’m not arguing which system is better, but I can see docs there taking an individual approach to solving say a chronic pain issue and therefore prescribing serious pain med.
Stix
Medical research is wrong perhaps 80% of the time. Human beings fuck up and that’s all there is.
Here’s the other thing, Stix.
I’d take an all in bet that the people who have died taking opioids did so because they DID NOT follow the course regimen determined by their docs and what’s detailed on the bottle. Am I right?
I think Jason Fung (or it could be in Freakonomics) briefly mentions that specialists kill their patients more often because they try more hail mary interventions. When they’re on holidays, the hospital registrars tend to kill less of the specialists’ patients in the ER.
It is great she didn’t get eaten up on a meat grinder on a All You Got Talent Show.
Tickler, your link doesn’t work.
She’s totally of her rocker.. completely mad, but at the same time you just can’t help liking and respecting the old gal.
Mitch, I have chronic arthritis, very painful, is never going to get better, only worse. I take tramadol, a slow release synthetic opiod, in fairly low doses, every day. Am I addicted? I don’t know, and it doesn’t matter, for practical purposes, because my choices are to take them (or something similar) or live in permanent, severe pain.
The arguments about opiods are messed up with this confusion between possible addiction and abuse leading to death. They are quite separate issues. The people who abuse pills illegally and end up overdosing are not people like me and the vast majority of prescription drug users. The abusers are typically poly drug abusers who consume vast quantities above the prescribed dose, and them mix it all with lots of alcohol. Not surprisingly, quite a few of them end up dead.
People taking prescribed doses correctly don’t die from opioids. They may become addicted, but if they, like me, have to take them anyway, so what? I don’t get a buzz from my pills, they just enable me to do things like use my right hand and walk. The dose hasn’t changed in years.
Others here have commented in the past how difficult it is to get decent pain relief for genuine conditions because of all the hysteria, but the health department has been writing threatening letters to GPs warning them of dire consequences for over-prescribing. Yet, the people cited in the statistics were not just taking opoids as prescribed – they were buying them on the black market or perhaps through a few corrupt medical sources and taking them by the handful. For that, everyone has to suffer.
The use of the word ‘addiction’ has completely undermined rationality. If a person has to take a medication every day, what does it matter whether it is tramadol or insulin?
Tickler
Do you know that’s being done in Kings Cross station/Euro Star train station complex? I think I recall the piano… not the dude.. just the piano.
When they talk about aggressive marketing, they don’t mean ads on TV and a few pamphlets in the doctors surgery. They mean targeting and corrupting key opinion leaders (high level doctors and researchers) and key opinion influencers (rising stars, low tier assistants of kols, and bureaucrats) in the field who go on to publish corrupted research and influence opinion in medical journals, conferences, large hospital and insurance company policy etc.
The average GP just goes along with the prevailing wind coming from his professional institutions.
Aussie Girl Shocks The Station With Her Talent
Stix
How exactly do you know the studies are corrupted?
JC, go tap the Piano the next time you see it. You’ve mentioned it before on your travels. (:
I did tap it once. We were waiting for our kid to arrive on the Eurostar from Paris and I moseyed over and tapped a few keys. May not the the same one though, but it was close to the Eurostar arrival area. 🙂
So you know about the famous Ioannidis paper! That was 2005, nothing has been done.
Mitch..
Yea, I read similar pieces over time, which have been referencing that paper in your link.
I doubt it. Addiction typically involves increasing the dosage and developing a craving without pain. This is very difficult but where possible short breaks, even a day or two, might help reduce the potential for addiction.
Addiction isn’t just about the drug. It’s a long story I’m not going there. I don’t think you have anything to worry about.
Tramadol.
We’re talking about rolled gold pure oxycodone, codeine and morphine being dispensed by US GP’s in bucket sized portions and someone is talking about their highly regulated, low-risk arthritis medication.
Dear me.
..
There are 2.374 billion females on the globe who aren’t children or elderly.
Pick one.
I did.
Johanna,
There are insufficient clinical trial but the evidence to date suggests this might be beneficial. If you are on any cardiac medication, especially blood thinners, should consult the doctor first. Vitamin K series, especially K2(Menaquinones ,MK 7 optimal) play an important role in getting calcium to the bones and teeth. Supplements are available and cheap. It also appears to have value in preventing cardiovascular disease because a trigger for that is calcium deposition in the arteries. So as my former collaborator would say: Soft bones and hard arteries: Vitamin K insufficiency. I don’t think it will cure your condition but it may help slow the progression.
J Nutr Metab. 2017;2017:6254836. doi: 10.1155/2017/6254836. Epub 2017 Jun 18.
Vitamins K1 and K2: The Emerging Group of Vitamins Required for Human Health.
Schwalfenberg GK1.
Author information
Abstract
OBJECTIVE:
To review the evidence for the use of vitamin K supplementation in clinical conditions such as osteoporosis, vascular calcification, arthritis, cancer, renal calculi, diabetes, and warfarin therapy.
QUALITY OF EVIDENCE:
PubMed was searched for articles on vitamin K (K1 and K2) along with books and conference proceedings and health conditions listed above. Level I and II evidence supports the use of vitamins K1 and K2 in osteoporosis and Level II evidence supports vitamin K2 in prevention of coronary calcification and cardiovascular disease. Evidence is insufficient for use in diabetes, arthritis, renal calculi, and cancer.
MAIN MESSAGE:
Vitamin K2 may be a useful adjunct for the treatment of osteoporosis, along with vitamin D and calcium, rivaling bisphosphonate therapy without toxicity. It may also significantly reduce morbidity and mortality in cardiovascular health by reducing vascular calcification. Vitamin K2 appears promising in the areas of diabetes, cancer, and osteoarthritis. Vitamin K use in warfarin therapy is safe and may improve INR control, although a dosage adjustment is required.
CONCLUSION:
Vitamin K supplementation may be useful for a number of chronic conditions that are afflicting North Americans as the population ages. Supplementation may be required for bone and cardiovascular health.
PMID: 28698808 PMCID: PMC5494092 DOI: 10.1155/2017/6254836
Free PMC Article
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Another supplement to think about is hemp. Someone here, I think it was Feelthebern, stated a big reduction in pain medication from using Hemp. Hemp contains negligible THC and CBD so I was confused by the pain reduction claim until recently I found research indicating that hemp contains cannflavins A and B which are potent inhibitors of two inflammatory mediators. There is no research because cannflavins have only recently received attention.
The revolting Savva handily sums up the fate of all committed conservatives …
They hated Fischer until he got the McCains later in life. Only then was he “loved” by journalists.
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You can probably cut that back by a few hundred million if you don’t want a porker or one I have already shagged.
Arky
#3143078, posted on August 29, 2019 at 1:12 am
There are 2.374 billion females on the globe who aren’t children or elderly.
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You can probably cut that back by a few hundred million if you don’t want a porker or one I have already shagged.
prove it, you skite!
Should have read:
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For the record: I have not shagged hundreds of millions of porkers.
There is no way to construct that sentence that doesn’t look like I root fatties.
I give up.
You’ve got me. Take me in.
Yamaha Sony SC-1 autonomous vehicle has no windows
The SC-1 Sociable Cart has been unveiled with self-driving vehicle smarts from Yamaha and imaging technology from Sony.
There’s seating for up to five people within the SC-1 Sociable Cart, which is 3135mm long, 1306mm wide and 1830mm tall. Powered by a DC motor, the SC-1 has a top speed of 19km/h.
The vehicle features exterior cameras, LiDAR, and ultrasonic sensors, as well as double wishbone suspension up front, four-wheel disc brakes, and a lithium-polymer battery pack.
Thanks, Mitch. I don’t seem to have developed a tolerance, so I’m not worried, but the doctor gave me the third degree (again) last time I went for a refill, I think the letters from the health department have got them scared.
Well, I know that tramadol are eminently saleable on the street, apparently they just take more of them to get the effect of oxy and the like. And some people do get addicted, with nasty withdrawal symptoms if they suddenly stop taking them (I’ve just been reading some medical publications from reputable sources about side effects and so on.) Certainly, the doctors I’ve encountered don’t hand them out lightly, even to a little old lady with visible arthritis.
I suspect that the US damages award has more to do with American litigation culture and practice than with actual culpability. It’s absurd to suggest that nobody knew that opioids could be addictive, least of all doctors.
Scrolling back I noticed the attack on KD. He’s got quite a pasting.
He doesn’t need me defending him, he is quite capable of that himself.
But I must say that he is definitely not a sock of anyone.
I know of a couple here who are quite recognizable to the astute observer but why out them? If it makes them feel good, I’m charitable.
I find KD witty and entertaining and as to his anecdotes?
I had a wayward uncle on my mother’s side, he is now departed, who was in the same hotdog business as KD,
It was long before KD opened his stand but his anecdotes sounded just the same as KD’s. regarding the business.
Slight variations of course given the different times and hierarchy but the nature of the business never changes.
He never got to have his own office like KD though, being far more irreverent I suppose.
Which is why I won’t let doctors off the hook. The problem should have been seen long ago, that’s where case reports are invaluable for identifying potential trouble and justifying follow up studies.
But it goes like this … The medical authorities desperately want to nail Pharma to take attention away from their own negligence. There are studies which demonstrate a clear correlation between Big Pharma “conferences” at top tier facilities, even tickets to major sporting events, and the drug prescribing of the doctors so entertained. That needs to stop and it is height of arrogance for doctors to think that such junkets do not influence their behavior. How could they be so stupid when the very point of those junkets is to encourage doctors to use the drugs of the company?
Pharma are not promoting their products to entice docs into abusing the sale of their drugs. They are promoting them so docs think of their drugs first. Secondly, I’m not convinced taking a well paid doc to the ball game would cause them to abuse their professional standards.
Mitch – wouldn’t that only apply to drugs where they have a choice of brands, or other substitutes available? If there is only one product that does the job, brand advertising isn’t going to make a lot of difference, surely.
So then the question is – could they have prescribed something else that was less dangerous? In the case of strong painkillers, it seems unlikely – they all have similar risk profiles.
So, if it was just over-prescribing, I don’t see how the drug companies can be blamed. But, they are easier to sue than thousands of individual practitioners, I guess.
JC,
There is plenty of data finding an association. 3 separate analyses below, one a meta-anlaysis
Twelve pharmaceutical companies made sales visits. Eleven out of 12 companies’ visits were statistically associated with an increase in new medication starts (p < 0.05). As the number of sales visits increased, a greater statistical significance was noted. This study is one of the first to quantify pharmaceutical industry’s impact on psychiatric residents’ prescribing practices. It appears that psychiatric residents preferentially start companies’ medications shortly after sales visits. Furthermore, as sales visits increase in frequency, more of their medications may be started in newly admitted psychiatric outpatients.
PMID: 11791954
CONCLUSION:
Physician-pharmaceutical industry and its sales representative’s interactions and acceptance of gifts from the company’s PSRs have been found to affect physicians’ prescribing behaviour and are likely to contribute to irrational prescribing of the company’s drug. Therefore, intervention in the form of policy implementation and education about the implications of these interactions is needed.
CONCLUSIONS:
With rare exceptions, studies of exposure to information provided directly by pharmaceutical companies have found associations with higher prescribing frequency, higher costs, or lower prescribing quality or have not found significant associations. We did not find evidence of net improvements in prescribing, but the available literature does not exclude the possibility that prescribing may sometimes be improved. Still, we recommend that practitioners follow the precautionary principle and thus avoid exposure to information from pharmaceutical companies. Please see later in the article for the Editors’ Summary.
Comment in
Doctors and drug companies: still cozy after all these years. [PLoS Med. 2010]
PMID: 20976098 PMCID: PMC2957394 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000352
[Indexed for MEDLINE] Free PMC Article
Mitch M.
#3143087, posted on August 29, 2019 at 2:13 am
At my previous job we were offered free travel and accommodation to many trade shows, some we took on with the proviso of no commitment.
Some were simply rejected as we knew that there was no way we do business with them.
Comes down to the product and will it do the job.
I would say, it’s as valid in engineering as it is in medicine, if a doc is overly influenced by free travel and meal + a show he/she is not worth the title.
And I’m sure there are very few of those.
The brand name can be an influence I admit but if it does the same job as the opposition’s then I can’t see the harm.
Comes down to oversubscribing, a different matter.
Comes down to oversubscribing
Over prescribing
No auto correct here so mea culpa.
So Arky porks fatties, huh? Fetishist. Who knew.
Do Porter has dropped a religious discrimination Bill into the mix without any warning. This f****** government is pissing me write-off. They are worse than the Gillard-Greens. Totally untrustworthy.
Thanks Nota. I am pleased that Pell is appealing and I now have f****** 000 faith in our press, our judicial system, and our sucking cowardly politicians. They are all treacherous lying bastards.
Geez Knuckles I thought you knew me well enough by now to know I always post under my own name and I don’t use sock puppets. Plus I also thought you knew me better than to ascribe some of those views to me. *sigh* No wonder you all spend so much time discussing your medications.
Too early for Tom and my wife is engrossed in an incomprehensible soapy, to me that is, Dr BG come on down!
Give you five minutes, after that I go to the garage to murder some wood trying to turn it into something useful.
I missed my workshop back home for too long, now I’m getting the tools and equipment I used to have but in an improved version.
Paul Zanetti.
David Rowe’s new formula is six days a week of TDS and one day a week of hating on ScoMo’s Tories. Mr Rabbit has become last year’s obsession.
Christian Adams (London Evening Standard).
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Steve Kelley.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Al Goodwyn #2.
Lisa Benson.
Robert Ariail.
Chip Bok.
G-Teem Body Armor
When even the BBC news guy says to UK parliamentarians “you’ve had three years already” you know the course Boris is taking had to be done.
Ramirez et al should know that the fuss is all about Brazil having a conservative leader, not because of the annual fires.
Mark A;
*blushes*
It wasn’t really an attack, or attack/s if you count the last few days. Kinda like using the term ‘merciless rampage’ against facial hair by having a shave. If it wasn’t me they were flailing their handbags at, it’d be someone else.
Couple of gamer nerd stoners emerging into the late night darkness, killing time while their super Pokémon-shaped custom made gaming chairs with bonus massage functionality have their batteries charged, I reckon.
Props to your late uncle btw. Hard men.
Oh, and apologies None.
An attempt was made (by me) to link the outrageous claim that I was someone else, that the outrageous poster was someone else himself. Of all the punters in all the blogs in all the world, you ain’t no sock darlin’.
You’re still an excitable tough old bird, but you stick to your guns, you never shift the goalposts and the paths you take to makes your point/s – unlike some – don’t look like the Slinky Olympics.
Mateymateymaaaaaate.
NB: Waxed pudenda is still cool. Come at me brah.
An oldie but still spot on:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CC6aEx6xYFY
Treated with more or less respect by politicians since 1996?
The Nero theme is a bit tired.
Like the hysteria.
All our O2 will disappear!
There are gamers and thee are gamers nerds KD. My youngest sons close friends vary from laborers to bankers. None use drugs. And couldn’t offord the systems they have if they did.
Yes, we all know where the “offer of international help” was going.
Hundreds of eco-warriors reporting back about how shocked they are at the “scale of the destruction”.
Attenborough feigning shortness of breath due oxygen deprivation and Leonardo di Caprio trying to extinguish the flames with salty tears.
I don’t mean to criticise people for their aesthetic qualities, but that Murnane(?) woman on the teev that was sacked over the Aldi bag full of cabbage has some work to do.
Actually, yes I do. That is one oggily cheek.
Still, we don’t know the whole story. Maybe the hundred grand was to fix her world-champion overbite.
Forget the body armour.
I believe they make excellent field dressings. I’ll pop a pack in beside the amputation saw and long nose pliers.
Was this before or after the Liars head honchos got all shocked and surprised at the bag full of Chinese greens and shoved her under the bus?
Yep, some days the signal strength is so low my phone tells me it can’t send a three word text message. And yesterday a co-worker sent me a text to say she was running late and I got the text four hours after she got to work. First world stuff !!
The miracle NBN will fix your mobile woes.
bespoke,
That’s why I said gamer nerd stoners. Clearly, your young bloke’s mates have other things to occupy their time with as well. Unlike Dumb and Dumber, who appear to use the Cat to come down from being Lord Wulfstan of the Etherworld with six dragon lives and additional elf power.
The miracle NBN will popularise kitchen table surgery in outback locations. Julia told me so.
Lol. In the UK all standing on chairs with their skirts grasped around their knees and squealing.
Stop the coup! Boris is seizing power! Her Maj has been bullied into proroguing parliament! Debate squashed!
Seriously, these people are demented.
The Labor Pardee.
Core Values, as per their annual report:
‘For the first 20 years, you’re expendable. Make it past that with your mouth shut, and you’re bulletproof.’
Poor old whatsername. Just one year left. The price of doing business, I guess.
The miracle NBN will turn every home office into JP Morgan.
Phew. Saw the amount against our winter electricity bill yesterday and winter is not yet over. We’re still running heaters everywhere as Hairy refuses to be cold if he agrees not to travel away from Sydney’s terrible (/sarc off) winter. I don’t usually bother looking at bills; most are online anyway and Hairy deals with them. It is almost double what it was last year as well as hitting the stratosphere in costliness compared to a few years ago. Is that all due to Gerbil Warmening, I ask Hairy, or have we been switching on extra much this year? We make no efforts to curtail our usage, but I don’t think the magnetic stove top, which seems to pull enormous amounts of power, was installed before this bill was generated. And come to think of it, we were away for most of June.
The winter bill is our contribution to the global hoax scammers, he says sarcastically.
Pity the poorer people. I’ve seen that the relatively small power bills that we pay for some of my extended family are also now getting bigger even though I know they have been cutting back on usage to keep costs down. Don’t do that, I tell them, but they still do. In the know to the poorer zeitgeist, they tell me that more people than ever are applying to charities for help with their power bills and that two of the big charities refuse now to take further people for interview as they are so overloaded.
it’s a constitutional outrage!
Murnain, her name is.
Apparently her first call asking for advice, on ‘being aware’ that there was an Aldi bag full of cash in the office having been delivered on behalf of a billionaire Chinese businessman, was to:
Sam Dastyari.
True.
As long as your job doesn’t involve computers.
I think British MPs have had years to take part in the benefit process.
The people have been very patient.
The totalitarians continue to squeal.
Entertainment., Of a sort.
Brexit but benefit works for me too.
It’s almost as if the Poms – the ruling classes, at least – actually want to be stood over by a bunch of unelected Eurotrash mouthing off from a place that only became its own country in 1830.
srr would have spit and snarled at me linking this but is I think good to see how The other half Live
The guardian have a Live blog on Boris’s bold move
Thanks Tom.
I’m late again from drinking too much.
Maria and I had our dominance fights early on. I won. She’s too smart to try again.
She said she’d come this afternoon and it’s 17:36, so she won’t come now. It’s something I predicted, I find predicting her works better than trusting her.
She’s not alone in her attitude to time. All Cubans I’ve known well enough to form a judgment share it. It’s a culture of mental sloppiness.
And these xunts have the temerity to tell me I shouldn’t be allowed to pay my plumber $2,000 in cash.
They fell in love with the idea of “being European”.
Faced with the prospect of no longer being able to imagine themselves as being one with the French or Italians, the inner German reveals himself.