Tuesday Forum: October 22, 2019

2,278 Responses to Tuesday Forum: October 22, 2019

1. Boambee John

   #3191835, posted on October 23, 2019 at 3:28 pm

   Old School Conservative
   #3191792, posted on October 23, 2019 at 2:33 pm
   The Australian comment approving moderators certainly don’t like “homosexual lobby” in any criticism of RA or Qantas.
   Many…many rejections.

   Have you tried Gaystapo? It does include the magic word “gay”. Surely that would be sufficiently inclusive!
2. EvilElvis

   #3191836, posted on October 23, 2019 at 3:29 pm

   allegedly shouldercharging and hospitalising a female police officer in Sydney.

   The cops have missed a massive opportunity to clean up the streets. Send out the cannon fodder quota appointees with a hardened, bordering on psychotic tough nut, old school cop and let the magic happen. Crime would eventually slow in comparison with the improved growth in funeral services. Win, win.
3. Some History

   #3191838, posted on October 23, 2019 at 3:34 pm

   Just ordered a Christmas present for Goth Castle –

   “The Temperate Use of Black Lippy”, by Lily Munster.
4. Bar Beach Swimmer

   #3191839, posted on October 23, 2019 at 3:35 pm

   Dover,
   I tried to post the YouTube but it must have gone to spam. However, her name is Kajsa “Ekis” Ekman & she’s a Swedish writer. The Q&A episode is under the banner of the festival of dangerous ideas – not sure what year. I searched for her & Jane Caro.

   (Ps. Obviously, I’m not good at linking a video)
5. Overburdened

   #3191840, posted on October 23, 2019 at 3:36 pm

   I call it like I see it.

   Or them, as the case may be.
6. zyconoclast

   #3191841, posted on October 23, 2019 at 3:38 pm

   4:34
7. min

   #3191842, posted on October 23, 2019 at 3:39 pm

   I see three year olds are promoting cultural appropriation . No flags when first fleet arrived , no clothes either climate must haave been warmer then.
8. Knuckle Dragger

   #3191843, posted on October 23, 2019 at 3:41 pm

   ‘a fag hag who has been ejected from the ‘Sleaze Ball’

   I was going to complain about the imagery that generated, but then remembered the visage of the black-lipped pavlova monster.

   Carry on.
9. Knuckle Dragger

   #3191844, posted on October 23, 2019 at 3:43 pm

   OB,

   Yes. There are comparisons to various things in butchers’ shops that could be made, but it’s not that sort of blog.
10. classical_hero

    #3191846, posted on October 23, 2019 at 3:46 pm

    Inclusivity: where some ideas are more equal than others.
11. Overburdened

    #3191847, posted on October 23, 2019 at 3:50 pm

    And bulldogs.
12. Overburdened

    #3191848, posted on October 23, 2019 at 3:53 pm

    As my mum used to say, if people were meant to walk around naked they would have been born that way.

    This is in part the reason I have no idea.
13. Shy Ted

    #3191849, posted on October 23, 2019 at 3:53 pm

    1735099 #3191565, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:51 am
    No, lunch time was spent by teachers on duty teaching socialisation skills.
    Were you off sick for this particular lesson, numbers?
14. dover_beach

    #3191851, posted on October 23, 2019 at 3:59 pm

    TONY JONES: What about the old feminist notion that a woman’s body is her own and that if you want to take that decision to make a financial arrangement out of having a child that should be an individual decision?

    The child reduced to a commodity. Liberalism 2019.
15. notafan

    #3191852, posted on October 23, 2019 at 4:00 pm

    Not step if they have the same mother

    Half brothers sisters.

    Steps have biological connection.
16. dover_beach

    #3191853, posted on October 23, 2019 at 4:01 pm

    No worries, BBS, Calli came to the rescue.
17. Bruce of Newcastle

    #3191854, posted on October 23, 2019 at 4:06 pm

    If it moves eat it.

    China Beefs Up Dog Meat Consumption Amid Pork Shortage (22 Oct)

    Due to the skyrocketing price of pork amid an ongoing shortage, rural Chinese are dusting off traditional dog meat recipes which had lost appeal until recently, SCMP reports.

    “Why not choose dog meat if you want some meat?” recommended a waiter in Wan’an county located within Jiangxi province.

    Or monkey. And if you run out of monkeys:

    Greedy killer monkeys found eating large rats in Malaysia, leaving scientists ‘stunned’ (22 Oct)

    Greedy killer monkeys were found to be catching and gobbling up large rats in Malaysia.

    Shocked scientists uncovered the rat-catching macaques on palm oil plantations – and say the hungry predators could be used as pest control.

    The southern pig-tailed macaques were typically thought to chow down on fruit.

    Just don’t stun and eat scientists please.
18. RobK

    #3191856, posted on October 23, 2019 at 4:13 pm

    Government of NSW Humptual Agreement Verification Certificate and checklist.
    Final page to list vaccinations record, any withholding periods and medical checkups history.
19. Some History

    #3191858, posted on October 23, 2019 at 4:17 pm

    Re: Goth Castle

    Wee Al declined to comment:

    https://imgur.com/HsemnhZ
20. johanna

    #3191859, posted on October 23, 2019 at 4:18 pm

    knuckles, I used to live in inner Sydney, and dopey gay men told me that they voted for Clover Moore because they liked her earrings. True. The ones who voted for her when she wore BDSM gear (leather necklace with metal studs) is not recorded.

    The gay party scene in inner Sydney has to be seen to be believed. They all imagine that they will be young and beautiful forever, and heap scorn on the old blokes seeking action.

    IMHO, one of John Le Carre’s best efforts was when Jack Brotherhood talked to Magnus Pym’s oldest friend, now Sir Kenneth Sefton Boyd, MP.

    Ensconsed in a crumbling Victorian house on land worth millions, with socks and underwear drying in front of the fire, shacked up with Steggie, a gay whore.

    It is reminiscent of the stories of wealthy British pooves buying boys in Morocco. Plenty of books about that.

    If you think that the predator pool is hard on women, wait till you have seen it in the gay world.
21. Stimpson J. Cat

    #3191860, posted on October 23, 2019 at 4:22 pm

    When are we going to have World Delusion Day, when we recognize that madness dwells amongst us.

    What the f$ck are you talking about.
    It’s literally every day for me.
    I don’t want a f$cking special day.
    I want a special carpark like the lazy wheelchair people.
    That’s practical and useful.
22. Gab

    #3191867, posted on October 23, 2019 at 4:53 pm

    From a reader in Argentina:

    Hi from Argentina, I am glad real Catholics are seeing the sheer evil behind all his Pachamama cult, it is deeply rooted in the traditions of Amerindian people in north Argentina, Bolivia, Peru. The Pachamama represents the “mother earth” in the shape of a woman, these statuettes with the red belly are depicting one important ritual in this pagan cult in which women pour their menstrual blood on the soil as an offering to the mother earth, many women do this here in those rituals, Argentina and Latin America in general aren’t really catholic, the remnants of centuries of paganism prior to Columbus are lingering and hard to erase, even people who say they are catholic participate in these rituals and sadly the [removed] Bergoglio keeps encouraging this disgusting evil.

    https://mundabor.wordpress.com/2019/10/23/the-truth-about-pachamama-straight-from-argentina/

    So glad those men cast out the pagan idols from that church.
23. struth

    #3191868, posted on October 23, 2019 at 4:54 pm

    Government of NSW Humptual Agreement Verification Certificate and checklist.

    Page 8.

    Managing FP and straying HSMM (BVCC)

    “Upon written permission “‘ means, legally, only what has been agreed to, no more, no less.

    Eg :
    If FP requests insertion of HSMM (BVCC) into the Sensual Mound OR Opening (SMOO), after signing has taken place, any conditions stipulated must be strictly adhered to .
    If “I’ll only stick the head of it in” has been verified and signed, any further penetration, even by mere centimetres. without written permission, is criminal activity and unacceptable in a modern society.

    What Should GASSA do in the event of an incursion?

    All activity must cease immediately and the OHSC married department contacted immediately.
    Punishments will be severe and will also take into consideration the FP’s prior offending, the colour of his skin and the ** level of his belief in the Climate emergency.

    **(non believers never get permission to be at this stage, as 97% of Climate Scientists agree that penetration can cause pregnancy.)

    THE GOVENMENT DOES NOT TAKE INCURSIONS LIGHTLY and punishments can be very severe , including tax audits from the ATO.

    PTO
24. Knuckle Dragger

    #3191869, posted on October 23, 2019 at 4:55 pm

    Late entry.

    So I was rectifying a typo in something earlier today, and in the process of doing so realised I may have invented a word.

    Statan. (noun) (stay-tun)

    Any incarnation of the evil nanny state and its regulatory minefield making life for the ordinary person unnecessarily difficult. Such as:

    The multiplying fury of negotiating several thousand witches’ hats travelling at 15kph while someone in hi-vis 500m away operates a whipper snipper.

    The work of Statan.
25. Gab

    #3191871, posted on October 23, 2019 at 4:57 pm

    @TaylorRMarshall
    @TaylorRMarshall

    The Modernists “say not one word” against Traditional Catholic Churches and Cathedrals being ransacked for 50 years or against Churches being bulldozed in the Levant or China. But they get high and mighty when FIVE IDOLS are thrown into the Tiber River.

    So true!
26. Knuckle Dragger

    #3191875, posted on October 23, 2019 at 5:03 pm

    Stamp duty.
    ATO websites and/or forms.
    Registering a firearm.
    The process of establishing your ethnicity in order for any recognition of your existence by any level of government.
    Imminent compulsory copulation compliance (h/t struth)
    NT only: Having to explain where you intend to consume grog purchased at a bottlo.
    Fictional mong bus usage forms provided by equally fictional suit-wearing Bastards from Brisbane.

    Statan at work.
27. Top Ender

    #3191877, posted on October 23, 2019 at 5:10 pm

    Another sub disaster article at Quadrant.
28. C.L.

    #3191879, posted on October 23, 2019 at 5:14 pm

    So glad those men cast out the pagan idols from that church.

    Indeed.

    Speaking of Pachamamas, Paul Collits has a brilliant, must-read piece up at Quadrant on the feminists who orchestrated the Pell travesty: George Pell and the SJW Fembots.
29. struth

    #3191880, posted on October 23, 2019 at 5:21 pm

    Government of NSW Humptual Agreement Verification Certificate and checklist.

    Page 9

    Talking Dirty:

    Banned, can cause confusion and words hurt.

    FPPV
    (Filthy Pig’s Performance Variables)

    Upon assessment, if GASSA feels that at any time the officially agreed action is not being enacted, or is being enacted poorly, or indeed taking too long to get to stated aim, immediately upon making FP aware of his failure, the attempt must cease and be reported to OHSC married division as a FPSF (filth pig sexual failure) and recorded.
    Here, and only at this time, once actions have ceased, can the GASSA and FP discuss and sign off on alternatives, however continual failure to achieve objectives may see a ban placed on the FP from requesting or stating, what he knows he cannot achieve, and thereby wasting everyone’s time.

    EG.
    “I will make love to you all night long”.
    (this is murky territory, as vague notions of love making are too generalistic. Government strongly supports clear language regarding stated goals.
    “I am going to fuck you until our arse caves in”, is more appropriate as clear goals are much more easily measured)

    Although GASSA may at times, even feel as if the FP has achieved some level of success, praise should not be given, as this gives the FP, (especially white ones ) a false sense of worth, and may cause many problems in the future.

    PTO
30. Bruce of Newcastle

    #3191882, posted on October 23, 2019 at 5:27 pm

    Imminent compulsory copulation compliance (h/t struth)

    We need an Australian Copulation Compliance Commission!
    Hmm, maybe that means the current ACCC needs to change its name.
    On the other hand they already screw everyone.
    Ah I know we can get the current ACCC to police our bedrooms.
    Being watched by public servants will be great!
31. Carpe Jugulum

    #3191883, posted on October 23, 2019 at 5:33 pm

    : George Pell and the SJW Fembots.

    Excellent article.
32. Cactus

    #3191884, posted on October 23, 2019 at 5:37 pm

    Would the new ACCC be liaising with the Clean Energy Authority to set quotas on licenced liaisons each year? Reason being is each liaison can lead to a birth and the carbon emissions from each person is substantial. To meet our Paris commitments we could just slowly ratchet down the allowed liaisons in order to meet our quota. We could even have a market mechanism which would enable trading of licenced liaisons between different couples and throuples.

    You know it makes sense.
33. EvilElvis

    #3191885, posted on October 23, 2019 at 5:38 pm

    Being watched by public servants will be great!

    Might convert a few to the dark side seeing a conservative man ravish a woman properly.
34. 132andBush

    #3191886, posted on October 23, 2019 at 5:38 pm

    Not sure who’s worse here, the bloke claiming he can do it or the gullible farmers allegedly paying money
35. Geriatric Mayfly

    #3191887, posted on October 23, 2019 at 5:42 pm

    : George Pell and the SJW Fembots.
    Excellent article.

    And what of that scowling righteousness on the dial of Wallington? Every time I scan it I get a different interpretation, not one of them which would endear me to the scrag.
36. thefrollickingmole

    #3191888, posted on October 23, 2019 at 5:43 pm

    The work of Statan.

    I like it.

    Statean works as well.

    And heres an association every Aussie should be a member of.
    https://www.99boomerangs.com/leo-wanker-appreciation-society
37. jupes

    #3191889, posted on October 23, 2019 at 5:45 pm

    Another sub disaster article at Quadrant.

    We really do live in the stupidest of times.

    Do you know the author TE?
38. Top Ender

    #3191890, posted on October 23, 2019 at 5:47 pm

    Name rings a faint bell from my Defence days, Jupes.
39. thefrollickingmole

    #3191891, posted on October 23, 2019 at 5:47 pm

    and the carbon emissions from each person is substantial.

    My emission is nearly 2 years old.
    In one of those “awwwww how cute” bits this morning he woke about 20 minutes before my alarm went off (phone alarm).
    He was settling back down when the alarm sounded, he sat up, put his hand to his ear like he was holding a phone, said “hello, hello” then had a toddler gibberish conversation to his “phone”.

    Disgustingly cute.
40. notafan

    #3191892, posted on October 23, 2019 at 5:48 pm

    Well I’m not convinced that the ‘idols’ were actual Pachamama ones.

    As I said this morning no doubt there is some element of syncretism but I very much doubt local bishops would carry pagan goddess images in a Catholic church profession unless mislead.

    I wasn’t aware that modernists were claiming a great wrong was done in the Tiber Toss.

    If they were intentionally using Pachamama idols they clearly don’t belong in a Catholic church.
41. thefrollickingmole

    #3191893, posted on October 23, 2019 at 5:50 pm

    Flashback…

    Hillary Clinton so far ahead in polls that she ‘doesn’t even think about’ Donald Trump anymore

    The internet is forever (at least till Google/facesatan & youtube tweak it properly)
42. struth

    #3191895, posted on October 23, 2019 at 5:57 pm

    Government of NSW Humptual Agreement Verification Certificate and checklist.

    Page 10

    Side issues and miscellaneous:
    Taking matters into their own hands.

    The government is now very aware that since this legislation has come into effect, there has been a marked increase in NSW’s FP’s visiting Pornhub and other pornography and to become Totally Orgasmic Solo Sexually Erotic Rebels, (TOSSERs).
    This is unacceptable behaviour , and selfish White cis male behaviour ,where we have had it reported that the FP’s are having a good time while looking at far younger GASSA and SMOOs while FTC (feeding the chooks) excessively.

    This is estimated to cost the community millions of dollars in future visual care, and therefore must be stamped out.
    Other costs are the many other environmental costs that are associated with love bite deflated rubber dolls (that are not UN accredited) and an increased use in Petroleum jellies which destroy the OZONE layer. (97% of climate scientists paid by us agree)

    If you, The GASSA, suspect your FP is taking the BVCC or HSMM into his own hands, or has made online purchases of the rubber variety, please call the OHSC married department immediately.

    We do secret testing involving the FP digesting ball bearings and experts test whether your cat is still alive 24 hours later.
    NSW.gov.au
    Authorised by Premier Gladshe’s a Virginnojiggyformen
43. Bruce of Newcastle

    #3191898, posted on October 23, 2019 at 6:05 pm

    Ironically Romans used to toss idols and lead curses into rivers for a thousand years. I recall a nice Time Team where they put on scuba equipment and went diving in a river. Possibly the Severn? Lots of figurines and other stuff.
44. Knuckle Dragger

    #3191899, posted on October 23, 2019 at 6:05 pm

    Best clip ever, mole.

    All those assorted mongs have since emigrated to Canada.

    Haven’t they?
45. calli

    #3191903, posted on October 23, 2019 at 6:15 pm

    You’re having fun, struth.

    Do continue. It’s clear you have had to fill out many…many forms.

    I’m seeing the thing in the form of a DA. With Site Analysis, Waste Management and Statement of Environmental Effects. Plus engineering specs. 😁
46. Gab

    #3191905, posted on October 23, 2019 at 6:17 pm

    Hale’s video shows the nude Mother Earth idol inside St. Peter’s Basilica, along with Pope Francis and various Cardinals chanting, dancing, and praying before the statue.
47. thefrollickingmole

    #3191906, posted on October 23, 2019 at 6:18 pm

    Knuckle Dragger

    Im fairly fond of some of these ones as well.
    Cant find the Maddow one, thats a classic.
48. John Constantine

    #3191908, posted on October 23, 2019 at 6:19 pm

    The rainfall snakeoil salesmen pick their market.

    Don’t lose sleep over the farmers that pay extra for the promise they will get rain, and their neighbors will miss out.

    Stories about grinches that happily paid extra money to a conman for the promise he would starve out the neighbors by cutting their rain off.

    Didn’t work, but the grinch got the pleasure of secretly gloating for a couple of months in anticipation.

    This is always where it ends, starts off promising to make it rain on command, then goes back to identified hungry gutted sociopaths and milks them for a second seasonal payment by promising to secretly drought out the competition.

    Comrades.
49. bespoke

    #3191909, posted on October 23, 2019 at 6:23 pm

    Those idol’s look like cheep tourist junk.
50. cohenite

    #3191910, posted on October 23, 2019 at 6:29 pm

    If shrillary had won:

    The climate victory mobilization plan.
51. EvilElvis

    #3191911, posted on October 23, 2019 at 6:30 pm

    Damn it Struth! I thought you were cut and pasting! I’ve skipped to the end and realise you’re the mastermind! Bastard!
52. struth

    #3191912, posted on October 23, 2019 at 6:31 pm

    You’re having fun, struth.

    Do continue. It’s clear you have had to fill out many…many forms.

    I’m seeing the thing in the form of a DA. With Site Analysis, Waste Management and Statement of Environmental Effects. Plus engineering specs.

    The mind boggles.
    Thank you but I said I do ten pages , there’s ten.
    Public servants would do no more in a day.
53. John Constantine

    #3191913, posted on October 23, 2019 at 6:33 pm

    Adam Zampa carving them up with the bat.
54. thefrollickingmole

    #3191914, posted on October 23, 2019 at 6:33 pm

    On their ABC there was a bit about ladiiieeees mental health.

    Apparently over 1/3 of women are hysterical frightbats (the technical term they used was “suffering from anxiety”).

    With the inevitable cries for more gender segregated resources being allocated for womens issues.

    I think its time to ask, why are women so crap?
    Seriously, it seems every foray into the “mans world” is causing their lady parts to catch of fire or their brains to explode.
    Ladiiiieeees are net beneficiaries of the welfare system while men are the net contributors, for the beneficiaries to squeal for more from the payers is the tick criticizing the rabbit.

    https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/worldtoday/australian-women-are-struggling-with-anxiety/11631202

    Lets give them the vote!
55. Knuckle Dragger

    #3191915, posted on October 23, 2019 at 6:33 pm

    Oh man.

    Delicious salty vitriolic tears.

    And a close up of a MAGA hat. Doesn’t get better.
56. calli

    #3191916, posted on October 23, 2019 at 6:34 pm

    Ten pages? Meh!

    Child’s play.
57. John Constantine

    #3191917, posted on October 23, 2019 at 6:37 pm

    Fifteen runs off the last Marsh Cup over to win, the leggie comes good with 6,4,4,1.

    Simple game, can play it with your eyes closed.
58. Knuckle Dragger

    #3191918, posted on October 23, 2019 at 6:38 pm

    ‘why are women so crap?’

    This is truly, several notable exceptions aside, a question for the ages.

    I’m off to the shops, and will use this basic task as an example on return.
59. calli

    #3191919, posted on October 23, 2019 at 6:42 pm

    Those chicks wouldn’t know “anxiety” if it jumped up and bit them on the bum.
60. Infidel Tiger

    #3191921, posted on October 23, 2019 at 6:48 pm

    Wow. Apparently lefties all hate Michael Leunig now.

    When did he get cancelled?
61. MatrixTransform

    #3191922, posted on October 23, 2019 at 6:49 pm

    Women are suffering anxiety and not getting the help they need

    What they need is hi-vis and a beard.
    empowered.just.like.that

    Innit funny how empowered means getting favor by dis-empowering others
    I’d be a Bower Bird except … fuck yr blue shit woman, bring me a green one

    So if theyre all like empowered but aren’t getting support who’s gonna get stuff done?
    Don’t worry about, I’ll get my own beer
62. Nick

    #3191923, posted on October 23, 2019 at 6:51 pm

    In the beginning, Leunig was hilarious, with some of his works being more akin to the views expressed at the Cat.
63. Geriatric Mayfly

    #3191924, posted on October 23, 2019 at 6:53 pm

    On their ABC there was a bit about ladiiieeees mental health.

    Every single time a head that rears up banging on with outlandish gibberish about the issues of the day – gender, race, injustice etc etc., it belongs to some overwrought woman who is clearly maladjusted.
64. Arky

    #3191925, posted on October 23, 2019 at 6:57 pm

    Is the pope pagan?
    Doesn’t have quite the same ring as: Is the pope catholic?
    Will have to find another universal affirmation of certainty.
    Is Trump orange? OK, but will expire with the man himself.
    Is the UN full of dithering grifters? Hmmmm. To wordy.
    Were Vietnam vets volunteers? No. Wrong tense.
    Nope, I’m stumped.
65. Arky

    #3191926, posted on October 23, 2019 at 6:57 pm

    too
66. thefrollickingmole

    #3191927, posted on October 23, 2019 at 6:57 pm

    Is IT actually Talib??

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    Follow Follow @nntaleb
    MoreNassim Nicholas Taleb Retweeted Mark McClusky
    1) Freedom of enterprise
    2) Absence of coercion by state/bureaucrats
    3) Absence of predation by big corps (system exploits the fragility coming from size to make the large go bust)
    4) Localism
    5) Property rights, law

    Transforms private greed/incentives into collective good.

    …
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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    7- SOLUTIONS
    It would be nice to but some kleptocrats in jail, particularly that funds are traceable. This will happen.
    But it is PATRONAGE that needs to go. Let me repeat, PATRONAGE!
    This can ONLY happen via decentralization as the larger the cental state, the more patronage.

    …
    And one last very good point.
    In the PRINCIPIA I explain that people used to welcome individuals but reject groups qua groups (cf hospitality of Arab tribes for n<5 pple, hostility otherwise). They still do but are confused about it.

    "Racism" is not scale-free.
67. Tel

    #3191929, posted on October 23, 2019 at 6:58 pm

    Wow. Apparently lefties all hate Michael Leunig now.

    When did he get cancelled?

    He stopped clapping a bit early on same sex marriage.

    Then he felt uncomfortable about the barrel of a gun being set alongside the barrel of a needle along the lines of forced immunization.
68. Arky

    #3191930, posted on October 23, 2019 at 6:59 pm

    ‘why are women so crap?’

    Are women crap?
    No good, nice try, but I think it won’t get taken up as a general expression.
69. thefrollickingmole

    #3191931, posted on October 23, 2019 at 7:01 pm

    I dont include all women BTW, just pissed off that an issue is being bandwaggonned into “more taxpayers resources for my group” as always on their ABC.

    Id much rather voting was a more restricted franchise, possibly a property or net taxpayer requirement to be eligible.
70. calli

    #3191932, posted on October 23, 2019 at 7:03 pm

    Leunig? Surely not.

    And then I Googled.

    But we’ll always have First Excrement on the Moon.
71. John Constantine

    #3191933, posted on October 23, 2019 at 7:05 pm

    The military-industrial has been replaced by the militant and indoctrinal. Society cannot support both as parasitical infections.

    Which is the intention.

    Comrades.
72. thefrollickingmole

    #3191934, posted on October 23, 2019 at 7:05 pm

    Arky

    Nearly every day there is a new study saying how awful women have it.
    Thats women living in the West, in the wealthiest 10% of the global population.
    With equalideee mandated by force of law.
    Which still has selective sex grants and promotions.

    They even suck at womens sport once the nu-women get involved.

    Its a pretty sub par performance.

    Also.
    Moha0000ed was right about marriage
    Its ok to have a penis
    A frightbat in the bush is better than one on your hand.
73. Arky

    #3191935, posted on October 23, 2019 at 7:08 pm

    Leunig Ok again?
    Thank God it is safe to walk ducks again.
    I saw this one on a bumper sticker last week.
74. Winston Smith

    #3191936, posted on October 23, 2019 at 7:08 pm

    I don’t know if others have heard of Isaac Arthur, but he’s done a series of outer space stuff.
    This one is about Arkologies and he seems to know his stuff.
    Warning – he has a speech defect that can be irritating but it is a defect not a computer voice or a deliberately bunged on accent.
75. MatrixTransform

    #3191937, posted on October 23, 2019 at 7:12 pm

    Leunig’s smug closure at the end of The Age every Saturday like the gold embossed leather on the back of a tome of importance.
    gone?
    unpersonned
    excommunicated
    Non est ridiculam ultra

    into volcano?
76. thefrollickingmole

    #3191938, posted on October 23, 2019 at 7:15 pm

    calli.
    You made me click on Clemantine ford.

    I leave you with this gift of her unique struggle…

    Clementine Ford 🧟‍♀️
    ‏
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    @clementine_ford
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    And sometimes I was just looking for anything to distract me from the internal screaming about this incredibly traumatic physical and emotional thing I had been through – which included a post partum hemmorhage and a baby rushed to a table to clear his airways.

    Translated: My hoo haa bled after giving birth, but hemorrhage makes it sound much more dramatic. My baby had the usual Apgar test but it sounds so much more dramatic to say “clear their airways”…

    She also had this brain injury to share…

    Conservative transphobes reduce womanhood to bodily functions all the time, but they only pretend to be in awe of these functions when it allows them to exclude other women from being defined as such. The rest of the time, they don’t even try to hide their disgust.

    Look everyone Im projecting again!!!
77. Nick

    #3191939, posted on October 23, 2019 at 7:16 pm

    FMD, yes, kill more female animals

    Natural History Museum is branded sexist… for not having enough female animal exhibits
    Male birds outnumbered females by 60 per cent to 40 per cent across museums
    Leaving out female members of the animal kingdom may be bad for science
    Study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B calls for this to be redressed
78. Winston Smith

    #3191940, posted on October 23, 2019 at 7:17 pm

    Black Ball:

    Rugby Australia were strong in the stance that his public views were unacceptable and then stood up for a culture which is about inclusiveness,”

    I thought the culture was about winning fucking tournaments. Not any longer.

    This was about a nasty little bitch who wanted to drag a man down, and finally found a way to do it.
    These are the people who surface into Pol Pot/Stalinesque/Idi Amin Regimes and brag about their cupboards full of scalps.
79. thefrollickingmole

    #3191941, posted on October 23, 2019 at 7:17 pm

    Female birds are shit.
80. EvilElvis

    #3191942, posted on October 23, 2019 at 7:17 pm

    I’m with you, mole.

    Employed a few and will be happy to retire to the desert a hermit when the time comes.
81. jupes

    #3191943, posted on October 23, 2019 at 7:17 pm

    As usual Mark Steyn gets it said:

    Because the price of welcoming and incubating and growing Islam in the west is, ultimately, the loss of everything else.
82. Winston Smith

    #3191945, posted on October 23, 2019 at 7:24 pm

    Overburdened:

    Regarding your comparison of male and female genitalia, I can affirm I have seen some very untidy ones of the female variety.

    +eleventy.
83. Roger

    #3191946, posted on October 23, 2019 at 7:25 pm

    Hale’s video shows the nude Mother Earth idol inside St. Peter’s Basilica, along with Pope Francis and various Cardinals chanting, dancing, and praying before the statue.

    Lumen gentium’s chickens coming home to roost?
84. Bruce of Newcastle

    #3191947, posted on October 23, 2019 at 7:28 pm

    Wow. Apparently lefties all hate Michael Leunig now.
    When did he get cancelled?

    Sorry Michael.
    Old white hetero cis-gender males have a victimology rank roughly equal to a leopard slug.
85. CharlieP

    #3191948, posted on October 23, 2019 at 7:30 pm

    Replying to the person asking about seeds, if in Melbourne it’s most likely Ulmus parvifolia which is a common street tree. It produces huge quantities of seed and is quite weedy. Related to Celtis sinensis which is a weed problem in Qld. Both known by the common name of Chinese elm.
86. Steve trickler

    #3191949, posted on October 23, 2019 at 7:30 pm

    So good to have electricity again after 5 days. A car that took out a local power pole, wreaked havoc on the neighborhood.

    Expensive house rewiring at my end.

    
    
    
87. mh

    #3191950, posted on October 23, 2019 at 7:31 pm

    Greedy killer monkeys were found to be catching and gobbling up large rats in Malaysia.

    Shocked scientists uncovered the rat-catching macaques on palm oil plantations – and say the hungry predators could be used as pest control.

    The southern pig-tailed macaques were typically thought to chow down on fruit.

    Rather than greedy, I expect their natural habitat has been destroyed and replaced with palm oil plantations to feed the demand from China.
88. Stimpson J. Cat

    #3191951, posted on October 23, 2019 at 7:31 pm

    along with Pope Francis and various Cardinals chanting, dancing, and praying before the statue.

    Lucky he’s Pope for life, right Catholics?
    Not 75 like all the other Bishops, Archbishops, and Cardinals.
    Got to love those quaint little rules, am I right?
    Enjoy Tradition!
89. zyconoclast

    #3191952, posted on October 23, 2019 at 7:33 pm

    Revealed: Cheika and Castle in heated clash at Tokyo embassy

    Rugby Australia chief executive Raelene Castle was left visibly upset after a heated verbal stoush with Wallabies coach Michael Cheika at a cocktail function at the Australian embassy in Tokyo during the World Cup.

    In an incident that was symptomatic of the degenerating relationship between two of Australia’s highest-ranking rugby officials, multiple sources have told the Herald that former Wallaby Morgan Turinui was forced to intervene to stop Cheika and Castle tearing into each other in front of dozens of guests at the embassy in Tokyo’s Azabu Juban district.

    The Herald understands the argument was over Castle’s insistence that the Wallabies follow through on their commitment to attend the September 25 function, which was held in the garden of the embassy on the Wednesday night before Australia’s crunch pool game against Wales.

    Embassy officials wanted the entire squad and staff to attend but, in the midst of the fallout from winger Reece Hodge’s suspension in the days prior, and because the Wallabies were a few days out from the most important game of their campaign, Castle had offered a compromise that the team send four players and some other Australian rugby dignitaries.

    Cheika continued to push back, unwilling to send any players, a scenario that would have been a major embarrassment for RA.

    In response, sources told the Herald Castle went above Cheika and asked director of rugby Scott Johnson to marshal some players. Johnson did so, with Jordan Petaia, Folau Fainga’a and Christian Leali’ifano going along.

    Later Cheika had a change of heart and, when he approached the players about going, was furious to find out that Castle and Johnson had gone over his head on the issue.

    The function went ahead as planned, with chairman Cameron Clyne, a number of Classic Wallabies – including Turinui – Rugby Australia staff and other Australian rugby figures in attendance.

    But tensions boiled over towards the end of the function when Castle approached Cheika to thank him for turning up and bringing the players under the circumstances.

    Cheika took umbrage and the interaction escalated into a loud argument, with the coach unloading on Castle about her actions.

    Turinui was forced to step in when no one else was willing to do so, asking them not to have the argument in public. Castle composed herself and stayed on for the remainder of the function.

    Neither Cheika, Castle, nor Turinui would comment on the incident.

    But in the wake of Cheika’s resignation on Sunday and his comments about having “no relationship” with his chief executive, the incident sheds light on how high tensions had grown over the course of the campaign.

    Sources inside RA and close to the organisation also indicated that while Cheika never publicly criticised the board’s decision to appoint Johnson in the director of rugby role above him, plus a panel of selectors, it was a structural overhaul that dismayed him.
90. zyconoclast

    #3191953, posted on October 23, 2019 at 7:41 pm

    ‘Old, white, wealthy’: ABC admits failures in news perspective

    but knocked back claims the taxpayer-funded organisation’s current affairs coverage is biased.

    Mr Morris kicked off a three-year plan to increase diversity for the newsroom in September with a boot camp in Bankstown and believes this approach will help lift audiences at a time when digital audiences are reaching their peak.

    “If you are old and white and wealthy and you live in Mosman, the ABC does a lot for you. But if you are not those things and you live in the outer suburbs of our cities the ABC is much, much less relevant to you on a daily basis,” Mr Morris said.

    “Our ambition is to reach into parts of Australia geographically, socio-economically, culturally, even in a gender sense, to serve Australians who are under-served by us currently. And in many cases that’s a geographical footprint.”
91. cohenite

    #3191954, posted on October 23, 2019 at 7:41 pm

    City of Newcastle becomes the first council to move to 100 per cent renewable energy

    From the article from fuckedfacts:

    They include a 250 megawatt wind farm at Bowman’s Creek, a 250 megawatt pumped hydro scheme at Bells Mountain, a 250 megawatt gas-fired power station at Tomago. It is also hoped the 113 megawatt Kyoto energy park near Scone will also be built.

    Fair dinkum, can the alarmists/greens/left become any more fucked in the head.
92. Knuckle Dragger

    #3191955, posted on October 23, 2019 at 7:41 pm

    Ever seen a bunch of chicks in the same workplace? It’s fascinating.

    If there are more chicks than blokes, then that’s ok. The balance holds, even if there’s say one bloke and six chicks. If it’s all-chicky, then look out.

    Cliques and alliances form, shift, disintegrate and reconstruct like those in the Middle East.

    Blokes will tell each other to get fucked, that their football team is chockers with fags and have punishing discussions on how small each other’s dicks are. But that’s it. The job gets done, the task accomplished.

    Chicks hold grudges for generations. They pay each other compliments through gritted teeth, then when the subject woman ducks out of earshot it’s all hushed, urgent commentary on her hair or the size of her arse and/or will she shut up about her renos and how much her hubby makes who’s probably cheating on her because seriously you wouldn’t root that.

    You need to cut the air with a hedge clipper, and at any instant the cold war threatens to become a hot conflict that would make the first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan look like a Jane Austen screenplay.
93. Roger

    #3191957, posted on October 23, 2019 at 7:48 pm

    ‘Old, white, wealthy’: ABC admits failures in news perspective

    “We sometimes have a perspective problem. The issues and stories we see at the ABC aren’t necessarily the issues and stories the broader population is engaging with or are directly touching their lives, their concerns.”

    The ABC is poised to discover how deplorable the views of non-white immigrant communities oft times are.

    Popcorn please.
94. classical_hero

    #3191958, posted on October 23, 2019 at 7:49 pm

    Thanks to the guy who removed the Idols from the church. It’s a direct contradiction of the 2nd commandment.
95. Infidel Tiger

    #3191959, posted on October 23, 2019 at 7:51 pm

    Mole, I agree with Nassim on many things.

    On other stuff he is quite an argumentative loon. Very entertaining though.

    Other must read people are Chris Arnade and Michael Lind. Am also really enjoying Catholic twitter.
    Neoliberalism is dead! Stake it through the heart.
96. dover_beach

    #3191960, posted on October 23, 2019 at 7:52 pm

    Conservative transphobes reduce womanhood to bodily functions all the time, but they only pretend to be in awe of these functions when it allows them to exclude other women from being defined as such. The rest of the time, they don’t even try to hide their disgust.

    Ford is a dishonest clown. Either being a woman is in some way related, not reduced, to one’s bodily sexual organs or there is no such thing as being a woman.
97. mh

    #3191961, posted on October 23, 2019 at 7:53 pm

    Until the gaystapo are driven out of Rugby Australia the code has no chance here.
98. Roger

    #3191962, posted on October 23, 2019 at 7:53 pm

    Other must read people are Chris Arnade…

    Yes!

    Elizabeth Warren’s sanest supporter.
99. dover_beach

    #3191963, posted on October 23, 2019 at 7:55 pm

    Catholic Twitter is great, IT. Adrian Vermeule is a hoot.
100. calli

     #3191964, posted on October 23, 2019 at 7:58 pm

     a 250 megawatt gas-fired power station at Tomago

     Has the Hunter run out of coal?
101. calli

     #3191965, posted on October 23, 2019 at 7:59 pm

     this incredibly traumatic physical and emotional thing I had been through – which included a post partum hemmorhage and a baby rushed to a table to clear his airways.

     Yes. Abortions are much easier aren’t they Clemmie.

     What a piece of work.
102. Gab

     #3191967, posted on October 23, 2019 at 8:11 pm

     Poor Clammie. She’s the only one to have had a painful delivery in the history of the world. The only one.
103. Arky

     #3191969, posted on October 23, 2019 at 8:15 pm

     I was in so much pain during the birth of our daughter I have blocked it all out.
     Can’t remember a thing.
     Post traumatic stress I think.
104. Roger

     #3191970, posted on October 23, 2019 at 8:16 pm

     The ABC pontificates:

     Climate change is making flooding inevitable in some QLD coastal areas areas, driving up home insurance premiums and rending homes in some areas uninsurable.

     Q. Are the banks concerned relying on notoriously unreliable BOM computer modelling for these projections?
105. Arky

     #3191971, posted on October 23, 2019 at 8:17 pm

     The gas did nothing.
     They just put it there as a placebo.
     Didn’t matter how much I had, I could still hear the wife carrying on.
106. Rockdoctor

     #3191972, posted on October 23, 2019 at 8:17 pm

     Has the Hunter run out of coal?

     Nope plenty of it around. Have done a few jobs recently round Singleton, it is going gangbusters there & I am considering an offer to move that way as this morning Oz confirms what I have recently suspected in Queensland. The ALP is secretly trying to kill coal & Freckless won’t stand in the way to placate Photios elements of her own party…
107. rickw

     #3191973, posted on October 23, 2019 at 8:19 pm

     Blokes will tell each other to get fucked, that their football team is chockers with fags and have punishing discussions on how small each other’s dicks are. But that’s it. The job gets done, the task accomplished.

     Mate used to work for a small engineering firm in Perth, all male, all rugby fans, all enjoyed a beer. Best place he’d ever worked. Then boss went on a diversidy drive, hired some women. Place rooted within 6 months, as conflict ridden as the ME.
108. Mother Lode

     #3191974, posted on October 23, 2019 at 8:19 pm

     Male birds outnumbered females by 60 per cent to 40 per cent across museums
     Leaving out female members of the animal

     I may be wrong, but in many vertebrate species the male is the beautiful, more adorned sex. They must lure a mate because the female gets to pick and choose.

     If there are more males it will reflect the fact that among birds males are more spectacular. The females can get away with being more drab and being less likely to attract the attention of predators – which would be a benifit while incubating eggs.
109. Knuckle Dragger

     #3191976, posted on October 23, 2019 at 8:23 pm

     I feel your pain, Arky.

     My other half decided to give birth in September, so obviously it was finals time.

     Smack in the middle of the second semi-final, Geelong v Sydney, I get the phone call. Come to the hospital. I’m in labour. Don’t forget to lock the house. Wear something nice because my Mum’s coming too.

     Impeccable timing. And they wouldn’t let me smoke in the delivery room.

     Statan at work.
110. Steve trickler

     #3191977, posted on October 23, 2019 at 8:24 pm

     Gavin McInnes is rightly pissed off!

     
     
     
111. Knuckle Dragger

     #3191978, posted on October 23, 2019 at 8:28 pm

     And:

     Any man that agrees to get married on Grand Final weekend deserves everything he gets.

     It’s nothing more than a demand to publicly announce that football now has zero importance in his life, and that he’d rather spend his time until he’s fertiliser either antiquing, or having earnest discussions with wifey why her friend hasn’t got a boyfriend even though she’s got front of thigh tatts and has the rough physical appearance of a giant, spent .45 slug wearing a sun dress.
112. Infidel Tiger

     #3191979, posted on October 23, 2019 at 8:32 pm

     #3191963, posted on October 23, 2019 at 7:55 pm
     Catholic Twitter is great, IT. Adrian Vermeule is a hoot.

     He is way too smart for me, but love his stuff.
113. Old School Conservative

     #3191980, posted on October 23, 2019 at 8:33 pm

     Have you tried Gaystapo?

     I certainly have BJ.
     The response was predictable.
114. hzhousewife

     #3191981, posted on October 23, 2019 at 8:34 pm

     pfffft KD. I delivered dau in the middle of the German Grand Prix, she has never lived it down.
115. mh

     #3191982, posted on October 23, 2019 at 8:42 pm

     Murder investigation as 39 bodies found inside lorry container in Essex

     https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/23/murder-investigation-39-bodies-found-inside-lorry-container/
116. Frank Walker from National Tiles

     #3191983, posted on October 23, 2019 at 8:43 pm

     This is a hoot

     https://junkee.com/leunig-cartoon-again/225963

     Thanks for sharing.

     Young mums of course have a right to be neglectful.
117. Bar Beach Swimmer

     #3191984, posted on October 23, 2019 at 8:44 pm

     Why ever did they think a Gnew Zealand Gnetball Gnome would be a sensible choice to run Rugby?

     Because, like so many other sports, including the AFL, there are few boards left with any ex-player involvement. So it’s all about virtue signalling and cosying up with other SJWs to springboard onto other board positions etc and to get invited here, there, everywhere. And when there’s a shortfall in funding, to lobby government, which is why ex-politicians have become the go-to people on some of these boards. They don’t care about the sport, the players or the supporters.
118. Mother Lode

     #3191985, posted on October 23, 2019 at 8:47 pm

     The loudest and whingiest – the frightbats – have persuaded themselves that they can easily do anything that they see men do.

     Men are brought up to take things in their stride, but they interpret as meaning it is easy. The tradesman making a comfortable life as a plumber spends his day with his hands in the most repulsive muck and excrement. The business man who has trips to Jakarta and New York is trapped in hotel rooms and meetings, and suddenly having to work 16 hours because of an unforeseen problem when he would rather be at home with his wife, kids, and a drink.

     They have no first hand experience of these realities, drawing instead on TV shows (where the mundane is edited out to focus on the dramatic) or from a circle of acquaintances similarly ignorant of the real world – they reinforce and echo their mythologies and drown out the jackhammers, the cell phones, the traffic, the factory equipment, the 5:00 alarm clocks, the tapping keyboards and the abrupt chirps and pips imperiously declaring that a method is barred and the human must find yet another, etc.

     And yet the one thing they are supposed to be good at – writing – they are wretched.

     Some people might say that the only good frightbat is a dead frightbat. But I don’t see what good they would be even then.
119. Frank Walker from National Tiles

     #3191986, posted on October 23, 2019 at 8:51 pm

     And yet the one thing they are supposed to be good at – writing – they are wretched.

     You mean Margaret Atwood really isn’t as good as Shakespeare, Hemingway or George R R Martin?
120. Geriatric Mayfly

     #3191987, posted on October 23, 2019 at 8:51 pm

     Two Slappers For The Price Of Three.

     KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
     We are delighted to announce that Hillary Rodham Clinton, former US Secretary of State and the first female presidential candidate of a major US political party, will be joining Julia Gillard, the first and only woman to have served as Prime Minister of Australia, for a discussion to launch King’s new World Questions event series on Wednesday 13 November. Alumni will have the opportunity to watch the event online and apply for seats in a ballot.
     
121. Cold-Hands

     #3191989, posted on October 23, 2019 at 8:53 pm

     Some people might say that the only good frightbat is a dead frightbat. But I don’t see what good they would be even then.

     A couple of uses spring to mind… Soylent Green or fertiliser (Not a death Threat)
122. Infidel Tiger

     #3191990, posted on October 23, 2019 at 8:55 pm

     Victoria has signed a fresh deal with the Chinese government and its global ‘Belt and Road’ infrastructure project with Premier Daniel Andrew urging other Australian governments to follow suit.

     The agreement, signed in Beijing on Wednesday evening, will deepen cooperation between the state and the Communist-ruled country in the key areas of infrastructure, innovation, ageing and trade development.

     Wednesday’s deal was signed only a few hours after federal Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton questioned whether the Premier’s trade efforts in China were in the “national interest”.

     FMD.

     Surely this can be vetoed under national security grounds?

     This is high treason.
123. Cold-Hands

     #3191992, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:00 pm

     Murder investigation as 39 bodies found inside lorry container in Essex

     https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/23/murder-investigation-39-bodies-found-inside-lorry-container/

     Sounds like another people-smuggling attempt gone wrong rather than murder per se.
124. classical_hero

     #3191993, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:02 pm

     GM, it pays to be part of the Clinton Foundation.
125. Mr Rusty

     #3191994, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:02 pm

     I thought the culture was about winning fucking tournaments. Not any longer.

     You’re assuming that the Wankeratti are wanting the National team to win tournaments.

     They’re not.

     Along with destroying the lives and careers of those guilty of wrong think they simultaneously get to wreck the ability of the team to win anything and can then enjoy watching the proles they so despise cry into their beer, salivating as the country they hate is beaten down in one of the last remaining cultural institutions that we were successful at.

     The left are vicious, spiteful, sadistic mutants and gain their strength from the misery of others.
126. egg_

     #3191995, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:03 pm

     8th Dick & Numberwang?
     Are they forming a band of merry men?
127. Siltstone

     #3191996, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:03 pm

     Roger
     #3191970, posted on October 23, 2019 at 8:16 pm
     The ABC pontificates:
     Climate change is making flooding inevitable in some QLD coastal areas areas, driving up home insurance premiums and rending homes in some areas uninsurable.

     Insurance companies are full-on climate doomsters. Why? So they can extract maximum premium increases from the frightened masses (and pocket the largesse when storm, flood and fire frequencies stay pretty much the same as they have been for a century). And who is doing the most to frighten the masses? The ABC of course, doing most of the advertising for the insurance companies, at taxpayer expense. Rather than start a business hiring gen-sets for the coming power blackouts, I should invest in insurance companies as their profits inflate from all the ABC hot air.
128. Dave in Marybrook

     #3191997, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:04 pm

     Oh, definitely murrrderrr.
     I’m assuming the bodies are “coloured” people, and the truckie is a tubby “white” bloke. The Met will see it as a white supremacy s#x-slave smuggling necrophilia ring, for shizzle.
129. egg_

     #3191998, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:10 pm

     They have no first hand experience of these realities, drawing instead on TV shows (where the mundane is edited out to focus on the dramatic) or from a circle of acquaintances similarly ignorant of the real world – they reinforce and echo their mythologies and drown out the jackhammers, the cell phones, the traffic, the factory equipment, the 5:00 alarm clocks, the tapping keyboards and the abrupt chirps and pips imperiously declaring that a method is barred and the human must find yet another, etc.

     They should be made to sit through Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe.
130. jupes

     #3191999, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:12 pm

     Poor Clammie. She’s the only one to have had a painful delivery in the history of the world. The only one.

     No no. The Duchess of Sussex also had a troubling pregnancy.

     And no one asked if she was okay …
131. Muddy

     #3192000, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:12 pm

     Steve trickler
     #3191977, posted on October 23, 2019 at 8:24 pm

     Gavin McInnes is rightly pissed off!

     If you haven’t yet checked out the link that Steve posted above, please do. Then sit back, take a breath, and have a guess at how far away Australia is from this very scenario. Think about it. After you’ve thought about it, decide, right now, whether or not you want that to happen here. If you don’t, resolve to do something about it, in your own, small way. Start with the language you use.

     If your response is “Meh. Someone else will do something,” or “I don’t want to chip a nail,” or “It’s too hard, I’m fragile,” let me know, so I don’t have to waste my time interacting with you in the future.
132. Siltstone

     #3192001, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:13 pm

     Infidel Tiger
     #3191990, posted on October 23, 2019 at 8:55 pm
     Victoria has signed a fresh deal with the Chinese government and its global ‘Belt and Road’ infrastructure project with Premier Daniel Andrew urging other Australian governments to follow suit

     Why stop at just an agreement with the Chicoms? Victoria is going to sign treaties with a few Aborigines, surely they can really kowtow and hand over the whole place via a treaty with the President for Life?
133. feelthebern

     #3192002, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:16 pm

     Joe Rogan got Snowden.
134. Steve trickler

     #3192003, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:16 pm

     Great work, Mr Heller. Most Cats will know what he is on a about.

     He’s been a wrecking ball of late. Stoking the flames. Calling people out.

     I like the title. Basic Science For Climate Scientists

     
     
     

     Good on him.
135. mh

     #3192004, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:17 pm

     The lorry (truck) is registered in Bulgaria so it might be football related.
136. RobK

     #3192005, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:17 pm

     Calli,
     Has the Hunter run out of coal?
     Coal’s steam boilers have some thermal lag and can struggle to match supply to load,(they are very powerful but slower to respond) particularly as Renewables proportion increases. RE has a rate of change of feed that needs to be met by rapid make up supply such as inefficient open cycle gas turbines, expensive batteries, synchronous line condensers etc. This means that an entire orchestra of machines responds to what used to be termed “load following “. When a cloud covers a suburb or industrial solar plant, or the wind backs off, the grid sees a sudden massive load, like never before . The imbalances seen with RE fluctuations are rapid and deep. When multiple machines respond that have inherent different response characteristics, conditions of “hunting “ can setup as fast response from synchronous condensers and batteries, (which have limited power to correct the conditions,) start to interfere with the ramp up of the slower but more powerful coal plant. This causes issues of fault-current differentiation throughout the grid. Designing a system to withstand this involves beefing everything up. It’s expensive in materials and complexity. Massive swings of power yo-yo-ing about the grid. Reneweconomy had the cheek to term it “the skinny grid”. Yes, the same grid that was gold plated just a few years ago. Heaven help us.
137. Atoms for Peace

     #3192006, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:25 pm

     Any thoughts for a suitable funerial dirge for RA.?
138. feelthebern

     #3192007, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:26 pm

     What a shit show Rugby Australia is.
139. feelthebern

     #3192009, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:31 pm

     I listened to about half of the Richard Dawkins interview with Rogan.
     The guy isn’t very well read.
     Lots of feelings though.
140. Knuckle Dragger

     #3192010, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:33 pm

     Well.

     I didn’t watch the McInnes clip first time around, but then went back and did so on Muddy’s recommendation.

     Even taking into account the varied US prosecution systems and judicial process compared to the Westminster system we have (in name only, and for the moment) this should have sparked a global outrage.

     We’re not that far off. We may think we are, but we’re not.
141. Infidel Tiger

     #3192011, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:33 pm

     Until the RA board and especially that Gothic horror show are all sacked, rugby may as well disappear.

     It is now as relevant as conkers to Australian life.
142. Ƶĩppʯ (ȊꞪꞨV)

     #3192012, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:36 pm

     The agreement, signed in Beijing on Wednesday evening, will deepen cooperation between the state and the Communist-ruled country in the key areas of infrastructure, innovation, ageing and trade development.

     marxist + marxist, a marriage made in heaven
143. Siltstone

     #3192013, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:37 pm

     RobK: question for you.
     If the powers that be could cajole, or force, the premature shut down of one or more aluminium smelters, would that delay the inevitable crisis from declining base-load power supply? There was a bit of inconclusive discussion about this tiopic a day or so ago…
144. Nick

     #3192014, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:38 pm

     Melbourne has so many young Asians living around it’s Central core that I thought I was in Asia. This is coming from someone who has lived there lol
145. Ƶĩppʯ (ȊꞪꞨV)

     #3192015, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:39 pm

     Fair dinkum, can the alarmists/greens/left become any more fucked in the head.

     hold their beers
146. Infidel Tiger

     #3192016, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:39 pm

     I don’t get the appeal of Joe Rogan. Do you need to be stoned?
147. John Constantine

     #3192017, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:39 pm

     https://www.theage.com.au/national/andrews-signs-new-belt-and-road-deal-with-china-the-right-thing-to-do-20191023-p533kf.html

     Fresh from watching the chinese communist party shooting/stabbing/mutilating with hammers free speech advocates in hong kong, ignoring the slave farms and re-education camps full of dissenters, putting in the forgettery the cultural genocide of Tibet:

     Their andrews satrapy kowtows to the chicoms and signs the proles of viktoria over to the possession of the Tyrant.

     The Premier shrugged off concerns on Wednesday about Victoria strengthening its ties with China at a time when the Australian government’s relationships with the rising power was strained.

     Mr Andrews encouraged other state governments and the Commonwealth to follow Victoria’s example.

     “We’d always hope that the federal government would have a similar approach to us, to work closely with China for the benefit of Victorian workers,

     Treason in broad daylight, but it is Hate Speech to call a traitor a traitor now.

     How long until South Park is censored in viktoria?.

     No wonder the bastard needs shipping containers full of military style assault rifles for his death squads.

     Comrades.
148. Bar Beach Swimmer

     #3192018, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:39 pm

     This weekend our local diocese will be debating whether to introduce a blessing service for SS couples following, I presume, a registry office marriage service.

     The second reading from last Sunday was 2Tim 3:10-4:5.
     From the reading:
     ‘…For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths’.
     Ironic, really.
149. feelthebern

     #3192019, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:40 pm

     Long form interviews.
     Works for me.
150. Infidel Tiger

     #3192020, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:41 pm

     Melbourne has so many young Asians living around it’s Central core that I thought I was in Asia. This is coming from someone who has lived there lol

     Melbourne is like Asia but much much dirtier.
151. Knuckle Dragger

     #3192021, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:42 pm

     ‘A blessing service for SS couples’

     Will they sing The Horst Wessel Song?
152. feelthebern

     #3192022, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:43 pm

     Melbourne is blessed they are importing educated citizens.
153. Infidel Tiger

     #3192023, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:43 pm

     Yeah, but Rogan strikes me as a not terribly smart lefty who is not PC on some stuff but completely goose stepping in time on other shit.

     Doesn’t have the firepower for mine. He’s killing it though, and at least he isn’t lil Ben Shapiro.
154. feelthebern

     #3192024, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:44 pm

     Australia has outsourced its education system to China & India.
155. Infidel Tiger

     #3192025, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:45 pm

     If only. All the gooks and curries milling around our inner cities aren’t smart enough to work in 7-11’s let alone complete a proper tertiary degree without mass cheating and fraud.

     All foreign students should be deported and the whole system closed down.
156. feelthebern

     #3192026, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:45 pm

     Rogan has his good days.
     & his absolute shite days.
     Example, his Alex Jones & Eddie Bravo interviews are modern day comedy classics.
     But his Dorsey interviews were an embarrassment.
157. jupes

     #3192027, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:47 pm

     It is now as relevant as conkers to Australian life.

     No they will hang around for a bit longer. Apparently Sydney has scored some sort of homo-fest in a few years and RA will want to have their own float for that one.
158. Muddy

     #3192028, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:47 pm

     China’s Belt & Road Initiative Parallels Imperial Japan’s Northern/Southern Expansion Doctrines.
     (A brief article by Jon Duggan in the most recent magazine of the Navy League of Australia; it’s not online, so I cannot link to it).
159. feelthebern

     #3192029, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:47 pm

     If you want someone who can do maths, guess what, unlikely they came from an Australian school.
     But if you want someone who knows about climate emergency & feelings, knock yourself out.
160. John Constantine

     #3192030, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:48 pm

     Their andrews nazgul occupying regime have just announced funding for a new diversity division of vikpol to focus on farm crime.

     Presented as a response to livestock theft as animals become more expensive, and to deal with protestors doing farm invasions.

     In reality the suggestion is that it will focus on guns stored on farms, chemicals and potential explosives stored on farms, workshops that could build weapons and drones.

     Safe farms means nothing pointy.

     I( have always loved dan andrews.

     Comrades.
161. Top Ender

     #3192031, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:52 pm

     Went to an event tonight which had no acknowledgement of whose land we were on, yadda yadda.

     Great, I thought to myself.

     And then I realised – I was chairing it.

     Will the knock be at 3 in the morning or 4?
162. Zulu Kilo Two Alpha

     #3192032, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:52 pm

     Naval Officer Kristoffer Hans Petersen was ‘showing great respect’ to alleged groping victim

     A Sydney naval officer on trial for “motorboating” a woman’s breasts was “showing great respect” to his alleged victim by offering an apology afterwards, a court has heard.
     CRAIG DUNLOP, [email protected], Canberra Star
     Subscriber only
     |
     October 23, 2019 3:32pm

     A SYDNEY naval officer on trial for “motorboating” a woman’s breasts was “showing great respect” to his alleged victim by offering an apology afterwards, a court has heard.

     At a Defence Force Magistrate’s Court trial in Canberra on Wednesday, Sub Lieutenant Kristoffer Hans Petersen’s defending officer, Lieutenant Commander Malcolm Gracie, said the apology was for making the woman upset, and was not an admission to him groping her sexually.

     Sub Lt Petersen has pleaded not guilty to a single count of committing an act of indecency without consent.

     “He’s acting with integrity and the proper respect (the woman deserved),” Lt Comm Gracie said.

     Lt Comm Gracie described the prosecution case as “all over the shop”, with differing accounts about whether the woman was “touched”, “poked” or “groped”.

     He said it was unclear whether Sub Lt Petersen had touched the woman on the “chest” or the “breast”.

     “In a physiological sense, a breast is that mammary gland on the left or right of the chest,” he said.

     Sub Lt Petersen’s case is that he poked the woman in the middle of the chest jokingly.

     The woman alleges Sub Lt Petersen put his hands down her cleavage and “aggressively rubbed” her chest area for about ten seconds.

     All right, all the ex – pussers on this blog, what are you horrible mob up to now? “Motorboating?”
163. feelthebern

     #3192033, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:52 pm

     Joe Rogan did a 3 hour bit with two old blokes called Carlson & Hancock.
     They’ve done huge amounts of geological work that there was a major asteroid that hit earth 12-13 thousand years ago.
     The impact if this changed the planet forever.
     I’ve started reading a lot of their work.
     Incredible that this stuff isn’t being taught.
     Instead it’s all about climate change.
164. feelthebern

     #3192034, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:53 pm

     You motor boating son of a bitch.
165. John Constantine

     #3192035, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:55 pm

     Now we see why andrews has unswervingly committed the viktorian taxpayer to fund the bailout of the peoples liberation army landsharks property developers and the failing dogbox apartments Ponxi.

     Not just for the plastic aldi bags full of cash donations, but to lock in viktorians as the Tyrants chosen collaborators in australia.

     Comrade Maaaaates.

     Fly the red flag over vikpol bunkers citywide in celebration.
166. Top Ender

     #3192036, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:56 pm

     The motorboating story was big news in the NT News this morning, seeing as it – allegedly – happened here.

     Never heard of it meself.

     But if you go to YouTube the world opens up.
167. MatrixTransform

     #3192037, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:56 pm

     Heaven help us.

     Trouble is that these dumb fucks are stupid enough to believe we can get thru this without massive spinning turbines.

     Very clear that Elec Eng are not running the show
168. feelthebern

     #3192038, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:57 pm

     Wedding Crashers.
169. egg_

     #3192039, posted on October 23, 2019 at 10:01 pm

     They should be made to sit through Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe.

     The Dirty Truth – the clip I was looking for.
170. John Constantine

     #3192040, posted on October 23, 2019 at 10:01 pm

     Motorboating is Hate Speech against bill shorten.
171. EvilElvis

     #3192041, posted on October 23, 2019 at 10:02 pm

     Siltstone, the assumption is correct purely on generation capacity but the market favours renewables. The power is there but will be priced out of competition. The generation capacity is there, they’ve lost their only customer though that needs secure, constant, reliable base load power. The plebs don’t need that at all it’s been decided.

     At least until all the plants are shutdown and the next Marxist belt and road infrastructure priority is power stations.
172. custard

     #3192042, posted on October 23, 2019 at 10:03 pm

     If you’d like some good viewing just now of the UK Parliament, Boris has just entered the chamber. It’s on YouTube

     Search House of Commons
173. John Constantine

     #3192043, posted on October 23, 2019 at 10:04 pm

     Daniel Andrews has left federal government figures fuming by using his China trip to sign a new Belt and Road deal for Victoria and back a research agreement with an aviation giant linked to industrial espionage.
174. jupes

     #3192045, posted on October 23, 2019 at 10:08 pm

     Will the knock be at 3 in the morning or 4?

     If it was a government event, we’ll probably see you in a few years TE.
175. struth

     #3192047, posted on October 23, 2019 at 10:09 pm

     Treason in broad daylight, but it is Hate Speech to call a traitor a traitor now.

     No it isn’t.
     It’s a responsibility as an Australian to do just that.
176. 132andBush

     #3192048, posted on October 23, 2019 at 10:12 pm

     Motorboating is Hate Speech against bill shorten.

     Bloody hell!!

     One of the best.
177. Bar Beach Swimmer

     #3192049, posted on October 23, 2019 at 10:14 pm

     Will they sing The Horst Wessel Song?

     More likely something from Cabaret.
178. Zulu Kilo Two Alpha

     #3192050, posted on October 23, 2019 at 10:16 pm

     If it was a government event, we’ll probably see you in a few years TE.

     Good luck in the re -education camp, TE – you’ll have to watch endless reruns of “Rabbit Proof Fence” We’ll spring you, if we can.
179. MatrixTransform

     #3192051, posted on October 23, 2019 at 10:18 pm

     but the market favours renewables

     the market loves sausages too

     fucking clueless about how they’re made and who is involved
180. Knuckle Dragger

     #3192052, posted on October 23, 2019 at 10:18 pm

     Goddamn Mike Rowe from egg’s clip just then.

     How dare he.

     He has stolen my dreams.
181. JC

     #3192053, posted on October 23, 2019 at 10:20 pm

     Went to the Microsoft store on 5th, yesterday. Apple better watch out as Microtheft’s Surface and bigger desk computers appear to be fantastic products. Just fabulous. Apple is lucky it’s got a lock with the iphone. Very lucky.
182. Knuckle Dragger

     #3192054, posted on October 23, 2019 at 10:21 pm

     The SS would have made great homos.

     Their full length dark grey leather trenchcoats were faaaaabulous.
183. RobK

     #3192055, posted on October 23, 2019 at 10:22 pm

     If the powers that be could cajole, or force, the premature shut down of one or more aluminium smelters, would that delay the inevitable crisis from declining base-load power supply? There was a bit of inconclusive discussion about this tiopic a day or so ago…
     I’m not an expert in this field but have been involved at the fringes in design and trouble shooting.
     I missed the discussion you mentioned. Large industrial users justified the economies of scale of the big coal plants. As the coal fleet atrophies under the RET, closing smelters is just a step along the way, especially aluminium.(aluminium refining was traditionally hydro, most of the big refiners own substantial hydro resources around the world and are picking up good rebates for the power while over production has depressed the price of aluminium for years now)
     The steel works in SA will be a subsidy fest. Some makeup heat will be scavenged from the reduction process to drive turbines that can draw from multiple heat sources.
184. Knuckle Dragger

     #3192056, posted on October 23, 2019 at 10:26 pm

     Jeez, the Irish cricket team are a bunch of tubby bastards.
185. Rex Mango

     #3192057, posted on October 23, 2019 at 10:29 pm

     KD, the SA were camp as a row of tents. Ole Adolf got the SS to bury his gay past, by getting rid of the SA. Gay community has never taken responsibility for putting him in power.
186. Rex Mango

     #3192058, posted on October 23, 2019 at 10:31 pm

     Think the SS trench coats were black Hugo Boss too.
187. EvilElvis

     #3192059, posted on October 23, 2019 at 10:32 pm

     fucking clueless about how they’re made and who is involved

     There’s a flowchart to be made by a smarter man using a common bbq snag to explain the fucked power market.

     KD, maybe a hotdog?
188. Rex Mango

     #3192060, posted on October 23, 2019 at 10:35 pm

     Kransky, or chorizo please. with mustard.
189. vlad

     #3192061, posted on October 23, 2019 at 10:36 pm

     Victoria Police today successfully defended Melbourne against a suitcase and a bag of laundry.
190. Mitch M.

     #3192063, posted on October 23, 2019 at 10:40 pm

     Went to the Microsoft store on 5th, yesterday. Apple better watch out as Microtheft’s Surface and bigger desk computers appear to be fantastic products. Just fabulous. Apple is lucky it’s got a lock with the iphone. Very lucky.

     Read a review on the new Surface models today. 1 kg weight, excellent performance with a Ryzen chip, acceptable graphic capability for game playing albeit at reduced levels of detail. Only quibble was battery life was just acceptable. Apple is lost in the PC and laptop market.

     Apple and Samsung are now facing stiff competition in the phone market because there are much cheaper brands offering good quality.
191. Knuckle Dragger

     #3192064, posted on October 23, 2019 at 10:44 pm

     Yessssss. *furrows brow*

     I believe a Mexican cheese kransky, that squirts on you when you nibble it would be my choice for this client base.
192. Zyconoclast

     #3192065, posted on October 23, 2019 at 10:45 pm

     KD, the SA were camp as a row of tents. Ole Adolf got the SS to bury his gay past, by getting rid of the SA. Gay community has never taken responsibility for putting him in power.

     The Pink Swastika (The Pink Swastika, 5th Edition)

     In 1995, we published the 1st Edition of The Pink Swastika to counter historical revisionism by the homosexual political movement which had been attempting since the 1970s to fabricate a “Gay Holocaust” equivalent to that suffered by the Joows in Nazi Germany. We succeeded in stopping that campaign, indirectly forcing the “gays” to abandon the pink triangle as the primary symbol of their movement. (They switched to the rainbow.) Intense public interest in our work, however, prompted us to publish subsequent expanded editions.

     Fifteen years have passed since we published the current 5th Edition, but our research into this topic has never stopped. With our file drawers now bursting with additional material, we have decided it is time to prepare a new edition of our book.

     This Special 5th Edition is designed to once-and-for-all silence the less-than-honest critics of our work by emphasizing the strength and trustworthiness of our documentation. Each book will also include a new section that highlights our sources.

     Due to the substantial volume of new material which we have added to this work, and the fact that we have not yet completed the revisions of the later chapters, we are publishing this edition as a series of books. This volume, Book One, The Homosexual Roots* of the Nazi Party, is a significantly expanded version of what was Chapter One in the 4th Edition. The forthcoming Book Two will combine expanded versions of Chapters Two and Three of the 4th Edition. The former Chapter Four will be published as Book Three, and so on.

     At the completion of this series we will re-publish all of the books of the 5th Edition plus bonus material in a final consolidated Hardbound Collector’s 6th Edition which will mark the end of what will then be a quarter century of research and writing on this topic.

     *phrasing
193. Arky

     #3192066, posted on October 23, 2019 at 10:46 pm

     Watching that Snowden shit.
     Guy was one of those weedy girly fuckends who couldn’t make it through recruit training.
194. Arky

     #3192067, posted on October 23, 2019 at 10:47 pm

     Kind of a US Julian Knight.
195. JC

     #3192068, posted on October 23, 2019 at 10:49 pm

     Let me say at the outset, I despise Zuckerberg and don’t go near his stuff.

     But really

     47 attorneys general are investigating Facebook for antitrust violations
196. Arky

     #3192069, posted on October 23, 2019 at 10:50 pm

     They should hang him just for wasting Joe Rogan’s time.
197. Rex Mango

     #3192070, posted on October 23, 2019 at 10:52 pm

     Here’s the place where Adolf enjoyed the company of other men for three years without employment and when in need of income, no doubt followed a stranger down an alleyway to sample a sausage:

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meldemannstraße_dormitory
198. Knuckle Dragger

     #3192071, posted on October 23, 2019 at 10:53 pm

     The Pink Swastika.

     My goodness.

     Well, we’ll see who’s Literally Hitler now then, won’t we?
199. JC

     #3192073, posted on October 23, 2019 at 10:53 pm

     Hang who, Fuckerberg? Was he on Rogan?
200. Knuckle Dragger

     #3192075, posted on October 23, 2019 at 10:59 pm

     Bloody hell Rex.

     Posing a threat to family morals, it seems.

     A polite way of describing a hotbed of poofery.
201. JC

     #3192076, posted on October 23, 2019 at 11:02 pm

     feelthebern
     #3192033, posted on October 23, 2019 at 9:52 pm

     Joe Rogan did a 3 hour bit with two old blokes called Carlson & Hancock.
     They’ve done huge amounts of geological work that there was a major asteroid that hit earth 12-13 thousand years ago.
     The impact if this changed the planet forever.
     I’ve started reading a lot of their work.
     Incredible that this stuff isn’t being taught.
     Instead it’s all about climate change.

     That’s the trouble with gerbil warming, Bern. It literally sucks the life out of everything and perversely it could be an existential threat for all the wrong reasons. It takes money from every single area of science when there should be money spent to deter real threats like meteor impact. That is the existential threat we face. Diversion technology should be our biggest one time spend.
202. Zyconoclast

     #3192077, posted on October 23, 2019 at 11:02 pm

     Labor launches strategy to better reflect Australia’s diversity in parliament

     Labor has created a new committee to boost the number of migrant MPs in the party.

     The Labor Party is introducing a new caucus committee to focus on multicultural affairs and to help the party shape its policies.

     One of those policies includes increasing the representation of culturally and linguistically diverse communities.

     The committee will be chaired by the first female M00slim elected to the federal parliament, Anne Aly.

     Dr Aly said the measure is long overdue.
203. Arky

     #3192078, posted on October 23, 2019 at 11:05 pm

     Snowden.
204. Infidel Tiger

     #3192079, posted on October 23, 2019 at 11:09 pm

     That’s the trouble with gerbil warming, Bern. It literally sucks the life out of everything and perversely it could be an existential threat for all the wrong reasons. It takes money from every single area of science when there should be money spent to deter real threats like meteor impact. That is the existential threat we face. Diversion technology should be our biggest one time spend.

     Exactly.

     Imagine that money spent on clean water in Asia, Africa and Adelaide.

     Defouling the 10 most polluted rivers on earth.

     Sewerage works.

     Salinity.

     The list goes on, but it has never been about the environment.
205. Rex Mango

     #3192080, posted on October 23, 2019 at 11:11 pm

     The Younger Dryas asteroid thing makes a lot of sense and ties up lots of loose ends re end of mega fauna etc.

     Re Adolf, the only woman we have proof of him sleeping with shot herself with his pistol, the same one 007 used. You would think that would’ve made him pretty unelectable:

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geli_Raubal
206. Fat Tony

     #3192081, posted on October 23, 2019 at 11:11 pm

     The Pink Swastika – it seems Bill Leak was on the money when he referred to the Gaystapo
207. Rex Mango

     #3192082, posted on October 23, 2019 at 11:15 pm

     There is a reason the ancient Greeks gave up on the idea of the ideal army being homos.
208. Rex Mango

     #3192083, posted on October 23, 2019 at 11:21 pm

     Re Joe Rogan, his podcasts are very much an audio thing, yet do really well on Youtube. Without those pictures of Elvis and Hendrix behind him, he loses lots of visual appeal.
209. Zyconoclast

     #3192084, posted on October 23, 2019 at 11:22 pm

     Nazi Germany and homosexuality

     Later when Adolf Hitler came into power, he chose to persecute homosexuals in order to advance his notions of racial struggle.[5] Yet at the same time, Hitler retained some sexual deviants in positions of power within the Nazi leadership. For example, Hermann Goering was known to dress in drag, paint his nails and put rouge on his cheeks. Another example is the case of Max Bielas who “had a harem of little J00wish boys. He liked them young, no older than seventeen. He had a kind of parody of the shepherds of Arcadia, their role was to take care of the camp flock of geese. They were dressed like little princes…Bielas had a little barracks built for them that looked like a doll’s house…Bielas sought in Treblinka only the satisfaction of his homosexual instincts (Steiner:117f).”[6]

     Homosexuality was supported in Nazi Germany, although modern gay rights activists claim that an estimated 100,000 homosexual men were arrested for this crime, of whom approximately 5,000 to 15,000 were interned in concentration camps.[7] See Homosexuals and the Holocaust for further details.

     Yet, according to some historians, homosexual men constituted the core of the Nazi Party in Germany.[8] In contrast to the wimpy “swish” homosexual, Nazi homosexuals were ultra-macho or “butch”.

     The OSS addressed the reason why so many homosexuals found the Nazi party inviting,

     “ this may be due to the fact that they are all fundamentally social outcasts and consequently have a community of interests which tends to make them think and feel more or less alike. In this connection it is interesting to note that homosexuals, too, frequently regard themselves as a special form of creation or as chosen ones whose destiny it is to initiate a new order….The fact that underneath they feel themselves to be different and ostracized from normal social contacts usually makes them easy converts to a new social philosophy which does not discriminate against them. Being among civilization’s discontents, they are always willing to take a chance of something new which holds any promise of improving their lot…[9]
210. Top Ender

     #3192085, posted on October 23, 2019 at 11:25 pm

     I spent some time reading up on Adolf and his few ladies some years ago, Rex.

     It seemed as if he was mostly interested in power rather than sex. But didn’t seem to be homosexually inclined. More asexual than anything, but likely realised the visual importance of having worshipful girlfriends.

     Ernst Röhm was one of course, and the friendship between them led to rumours H was so inclined.
211. Rex Mango

     #3192086, posted on October 23, 2019 at 11:26 pm

     Looking for evidence of homos producing the Nazis is like looking for comets producing the Younger Dryas and the extinction of mega fauna. Vested interests prevent this subject being discussed in a scientific manner.
212. Rex Mango

     #3192087, posted on October 23, 2019 at 11:28 pm

     TE, got very few problems, but not much experience of worshipful girlfriends, so am in no experience to comment, regrettably.
213. Rex Mango

     #3192088, posted on October 23, 2019 at 11:28 pm

     TE, so you discount the possibility?
214. Steve trickler

     #3192089, posted on October 23, 2019 at 11:30 pm

     Great to see Ed Dickens give Big Boy some throttle.

     These train chasers are producing some quality and iconic imagery. It is an arms race.

     20 mins.

     
     
     
215. Zulu Kilo Two Alpha

     #3192091, posted on October 23, 2019 at 11:35 pm

     Top Ender, thanks for your links to the reviews of “Shattered Sword” by Parshall and Tully – it’s been a few years since I read the book, it’s next on the “to read” list.
216. Leigh Lowe

     #3192093, posted on October 23, 2019 at 11:37 pm

     Adolph was gay.
     FMD.
     More gay than Liberace.
     FFS, how many signals do you need?
     And also vegan.
     Helllloooo sailor.
217. mh

     #3192094, posted on October 23, 2019 at 11:44 pm

     Donald J. Trump
     @realDonaldTrump
     ·
     3m
     Big success on the Turkey/Syria Border. Safe Zone created! Ceasefire has held and combat missions have ended. Kurds are safe and have worked very nicely with us. Captured ISIS prisoners secured. I will be making a statement at 11:00 A.M. from the White House. Thank you!
218. Zulu Kilo Two Alpha

     #3192095, posted on October 23, 2019 at 11:44 pm

     Adolph was gay.
     FMD.
     More gay than Liberace.
     FFS, how many signals do you need?
     And also vegan.
     Helllloooo sailor.

     So Adolph was gay, and a Socialist – strikes me that he would have fitted in well with today’s Greens.
219. mh

     #3192096, posted on October 23, 2019 at 11:48 pm

     Mein Kampf
220. Top Ender

     #3192097, posted on October 23, 2019 at 11:52 pm

     Yes Rex, I’d say Hitler wasn’t homosexually inclined.

     Hard to tell definitively through the mists of time; slanders from his enemies, and deliberate propaganda efforts from the Allies, but for some reason I got interested in his personal life after reading up on Eva Braun. It was casual reading rather than research though.

     It’s also the case that absence of evidence, isn’t evidence of absence either.

     Strange bloke in many ways, even in his early years. Probably driven by anger, which was fuelled by failure and rejection. Brave in WWI. In modern times the sort of man who would become a crazed lone gunman.

     Then again sex-wise it’s a fallacy to think all blokes are sex-mad males. Some are JFK frantic women-chasers; some apathetic, some sort of middle of the road. Wasn’t some of Masters and Johnston’s work related to trying to establish some sort of “normalcy” and discovered they couldn’t? Then Shere Hite came along and so on? Hitler was just not very interested in women.
221. Rex Mango

     #3192098, posted on October 23, 2019 at 11:53 pm

     Steve T, that was great footage of the 4014 Big Boy. No better excuse to get over and get on the train than this.
222. Knuckle Dragger

     #3192099, posted on October 23, 2019 at 11:54 pm

     A phalanx of prolapses.

     An Einsatzgruppen of ring fanciers.

     A Schutzstaffen of sausage swallowers.
223. Rex Mango

     #3192100, posted on October 23, 2019 at 11:57 pm

     TE, yeah good argument. Am thinking if the Allies and particularly the Soviets, had’ve found any sort of evidence, they wouldn’t have hesitated to air it, as the Yanks casually did with Osama’s porn collection.
224. Knuckle Dragger

     #3192101, posted on October 24, 2019 at 12:00 am

     ‘Big success on the Turkey/Syria Border. Safe Zone created! Ceasefire has held and combat missions have ended.’

     And that’s the last we’ll see of Delmontycongrig, despite his ‘I’ll be back and you’ll all be sorry’ crybullying from last night.

     Under his most recent handle, anyway.
225. Hazmatic

     #3192102, posted on October 24, 2019 at 12:00 am

     Mater
     #3191498, posted on October 23, 2019 at 8:31 am
     I dare you to do a comparative cost analysis on the War Service Loan you got versus what today’s scheme saves you.

     I can have a crack.
     The Benefits that accrued from service in South Vietnam were:
     a. Medal entitlement
     b. The war Services Home Scheme
     c. repatriation benefits
     d. Resettlement Benefits for ARA and NS Personnel
     e. Returned Services League Benefits.

     War Service Home loans were available to an applicant was married, about to marry, (1970 so this was to a woman) or had dependants for whom it was necessary to provide a home. Provided that the applicant or spouse didn’t already own a home, intended to use the home as his dwelling and the applicant had not been dishonourably discharged.

     The maximum value of the loan in 1970 was $8,000 with an interest rate of 3 ¾ pa flat. Maximum time for repayment was 45 years. Minimum deposit of 10% was required and a second mortgage allowed.

     Now to make practical sense of what that meant in terms that people might relate to today, I have had to fudge some data to make up for numbers I don’t have to hand. As a result the following will not be 100% accurate but will be close enough for Government work.

     In 1970 Average annual earnings were $4 108 today they are $84 989 Currently a Private soldier in the ADF earns 58% of average annual earnings. Using this proportion as a surrogate indicator for 1970 a Private would have earned around $2 382 per annum

     A National Serviceman if serving in Vietnam would pay no income tax on this amount and additionally would be paid an ‘Overseas living In allowance’ worth $565 pa and a $40.00 gratuity for each year served.
     The total earnings were $2 988.40 tax free which was equivalent to $3 400 taxable income. That’s about $70 341 in today’s money (Which most 21 year old’s would consider very decent coin.) The army of course provided food clothing and shelter. Saving a house deposit of $800 would not have been a difficult proposition.

     In 1970 the median price for a house in Sydney was $18 700. Today it is $815 000. If a keen young newly discharged Nasho wanted to buy a home in a regional city – say Toowoomba, he could expect to get a lot more for his “five figure windfall” of $8 000. The median Toowoomba house price today is $367 945 or 45% that of Sydney. If that also held true in 1970 the median Toowoomba house price would have been $8 494.00 Easily within reach of a War Service Home Loan applicant who had saved a few pennies.
     Total repayments at 3 ¾ percent flat over the maximum borrowing period would have amounted to $21 500 by 2016 and the repayment would have been fixed at $39.81 per month over the term of the loan.
     The last mortgage payment in 2016 would have been $9.19 per week. Which compares more than favourably with the cost of smashed avocado on toast at the Toowoomba Coffee Club which will set you back $15.50. The kids might have a point?

     Bottom line is that the war service loan created the opportunity to invest in an asset that compounded at 8-9% per annum.

     All the details of this comparatively generous scheme can be found on pages 185-190 of the Annex to the June 1970 7RAR Commanders diaries.

     It is true that people respond to incentives and the home loan scheme certainly was an incentive for some National Servicemen. I say some because I do not assume all National Servicemen shared the same attitudes and enthusiasm for that benefit. There was a range of attitudes.

     Just as there was a range of attitudes generally expressed about National Service. There were those that counted the days until their two years were up and others who were keen to extend their service.

     A good example of the latter can be found on page 71 of the Annex to the October 1970 7RAR Commanders diaries. It is a list of 30 men who applied that month to extend their period of service in Vietnam.

     You might expect these all to be crusty old regular army war dogs. (There certainly was one of those. He was Sergeant Ian Becker who remarkably served nearly continuously in Vietnam from 1967 to 1972. Going home occasionally for Christmas.) Of these 30 men, four were liable for National Service but had joined the Regular Army, Eight were balloted in National Servicemen and three were Volunteer National Servicemen.
     Half of those that chose to extend their active service past the obligatory 12 month tour of Vietnam were liable for National Service or National Service volunteers. Men who had already qualified for Medals, A generous War Service Housing loan and resettlement benefits.

     It is impossible to say what motivated these young men to vote with their feet in the way that they did. The invisible hand of the market and the prospect of tax free earnings as an incentive must have played at least a partial role.

     What it undoubtedly demonstrates is that there was a range of attitudes towards National Service.
226. zyconoclast

     #3192103, posted on October 24, 2019 at 12:00 am

     Artificial blood that is ‘better than the real thing’ made in lab by scientists

     Artificial blood that can be used by anyone regardless of their blood type and will increase the survival rate of patients has been created by scientists .

     Japanese researchers from the National Defense Medical College have revealed the blood which they created in a lab.

     The team boast it can be transfused into patients regardless of their blood.

     Scientists boasted their tests on rabbits have been successful, and it is hoped to be used on humans.

     It is also hoped medics will be able to use the artificial blood to help seriously injured people, and it will increase survival rates.

     Doctors will now no longer have to worry about limits on the amount of blood available from donors.

     Scientists claim their artificial blood can also be stored for a year at normal temperatures.

     Blood can normally be kept for only 20 days at chilled temperatures before it spoils.

     Loss of blood platelets that stop bleeding, and red blood cells that carry oxygen, will lead to death.

     Platelets can only be stored for four days and need to be shaken.

     rofessor Manabu Kinoshita said: “It is difficult to stock a sufficient amount of blood for transfusions in such regions as remote islands.

     “The artificial blood will be able to save the lives of people who otherwise could not be saved.”

     Scientists used the artificial blood on ten rabbits suffering from serious blood loss.

     Six of them managed to survive the tests, a ratio similar to rabbits treated with real blood.
227. Leigh Lowe

     #3192104, posted on October 24, 2019 at 12:02 am

     JC

     #3192053, posted on October 23, 2019 at 10:20 pm

     Went to the Microsoft store on 5th, yesterday. Apple better watch out as Microtheft’s Surface and bigger desk computers appear to be fantastic products. Just fabulous. Apple is lucky it’s got a lock with the iphone. Very lucky.

     Not so sure.
     Mrs L has been solid i-phone for years.
     Only today she said she is going Samsung next changeover.
     She reckons the photos on my Samsung are way better than her i-phone.
     I’ve been trying to tell her that I just have that Ansell Adams / Cartier-Bresson eye for photography.
     The truth?
     Samsung kills Apple for photos.
     Which is the key thing about phones now.
228. Rex Mango

     #3192105, posted on October 24, 2019 at 12:03 am

     The Comet Research Group is unraveling the mysteries of North American Geologic History. What is needed is the Homo Research Group to figure out what started WW2, the Trojan War and why the Vikings left the hottest women in the world.
229. Mitch M.

     #3192106, posted on October 24, 2019 at 12:06 am
230. EvilElvis

     #3192107, posted on October 24, 2019 at 12:07 am

     Dickens give Big Boy some throttle.

     Phrasing!
231. Infidel Tiger

     #3192108, posted on October 24, 2019 at 12:07 am

     Dunno about that. The latest iPhone has a much better camera than the competition.

     I am thinking of quitting Apple because they are run by a homo fascist who is in cahoots with the Chicoms.
232. JC

     #3192109, posted on October 24, 2019 at 12:08 am

     Leigh

     Market reports are that the new iPhone is doing really well. Much better than market expected and that’s why Apple stock is back on the highs. I think it just hit a record high again.
233. mh

     #3192110, posted on October 24, 2019 at 12:09 am

     BOM weather radars showing bands of light rain around Brisbane/SE QLD, yet the skies are clear.
234. JC

     #3192111, posted on October 24, 2019 at 12:09 am

     Listened to a CNBC report the other day and they heads were actually talking about how good the new phone camera is.
235. zyconoclast

     #3192112, posted on October 24, 2019 at 12:10 am

     Horror as THIRTY-NINE bodies – including one teenager – are found in a refrigerated truck container near London as driver, 25, is arrested on suspicion of murder

     The Scania lorry is originally from Bulgaria and had entered the UK at the Welsh port of Holyhead, Wales, where ferries arrive from Ireland.

     The trailer is refrigerated, meaning those on board could have frozen to death while trying to get into Britain through the ‘weak point’ of Ireland.

     The lorry’s driver, a 25-year-old man from Northern Ireland, has been arrested on suspicion of murder. Police have not said where those who died are from or where they were thought to have been travelling to.
236. Leigh Lowe

     #3192113, posted on October 24, 2019 at 12:14 am

     Look, it is entirely possible that Apple may have stolen Samsung’s photo technology.
     But I agree with IT.
     We can’t support a homo-fascist Chicom.
237. zyconoclast

     #3192114, posted on October 24, 2019 at 12:15 am

     The BloJo fraud continues

     Boris Johnson has met Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn amid uncertainty over what happens next with Brexit.

     A Labour Party spokesperson said: “Jeremy Corbyn reiterated Labour’s offer to the prime minister to agree a reasonable timetable to debate, scrutinise and amend the Withdrawal Agreement Bill, and restated that Labour will support a general election when the threat of a no-deal crash-out is off the table.”

     No 10 said there had been “no meeting of minds” between the two men and no further talks were currently planned.
238. JC

     #3192115, posted on October 24, 2019 at 12:15 am

     Leigh

     A lot of people are probably like me at a certain age.

     I wouldn’t consider changing from Apple products because I’m used to the tech and can’t be bothered charging and learning new crap. Even so I have microtheft on Apple through parallels as I have to run trading software and charting etc on micro because they don’t work with Apple. I never use microtheft though and only do for that software.

     Apple has a lock on people like me and they would really, really to fuck up big time before they lost these types of customers.
239. EvilElvis

     #3192116, posted on October 24, 2019 at 12:18 am

     I rant occasionally about mobile phone hardware being designed by legends, made by gurus and programmed by complete fuckwits. I’m a Samsung man. Tried setting up a new Apple device for my old man the other day and FMD! Apple programming by stark raving homo, fuckwit, imbeciles!

     If you’re hooked into the Apple ecosystem good luck to you, keep kidding yourself. If not, the world of android awaits.
240. Zulu Kilo Two Alpha

     #3192117, posted on October 24, 2019 at 12:18 am

     I can have a crack.
     The Benefits that accrued from service in South Vietnam were:
     a. Medal entitlement
     b. The war Services Home Scheme
     c. repatriation benefits
     d. Resettlement Benefits for ARA and NS Personnel
     e. Returned Services League Benefits.

     So, no National Serviceman would never have taken any one of the unofficial opportunities to “opt out”, gone to the “fun factory” for the sake of the benefits, and claimed that, when popular opinion turned against the war, that he had no choice?
241. Leigh Lowe

     #3192118, posted on October 24, 2019 at 12:19 am

     So we agree.
     The key thing in a phone now is it’s camera function.
     My one complaint about the Samsung phone is that IT IS REALLY FUCKING HARD TO ANSWER A PHONE CAA
     LL.
242. Leigh Lowe

     #3192119, posted on October 24, 2019 at 12:20 am

     Or type the word “CALL”.
243. JC

     #3192120, posted on October 24, 2019 at 12:20 am

     Wifey uses a Mac. I can’t imagine her ever switching to another platform as she would have to learn it all over again. That would be an impossible task… and also for me.

     “Hey, can you fix my computer”, is not something anyone wants to hear a few times a day. 🙂

     Once a week is bearable.
244. EvilElvis

     #3192121, posted on October 24, 2019 at 12:22 am

     There’s that fuckwit programming again, LL.

     And remember, it’s all about ‘gestures’, gentle swipes. That will unlock your calls…

     I feel a bit gay after that.
245. Mr Rusty

     #3192122, posted on October 24, 2019 at 12:22 am

     So Adolph was gay, and a Socialist – strikes me that he would have fitted in well with today’s Greens.

     The Greens all originated from the German Green Party which was an offshoot of the World Union for the Protection of Life founded by Gunther Schwaab, a eugenicist and Nazi. At the founding of The Greens his speeches were quoted. Thus The Greens are the only political party to be founded by a Nazi on the words of a Nazi.

     Do remember to bring this up at the next dinner party you attend when someone proudly declares they voted for The Greens.
246. JC

     #3192123, posted on October 24, 2019 at 12:23 am

     Evil

     Maybe Apple products are better used when everything else is Apple based. I’ve never had a issue switching a new phone. iTunes on a Mac basically does it all for you. It’s really easy on an Apple eco-system.
247. JC

     #3192124, posted on October 24, 2019 at 12:26 am

     By the way, Tim Cook is the closest thing, Trump has to a pal on Silicon Valley other than the other gay, German dude whose name I forget.

     The orange man, with a Silicon Valley gay following.. how funny.
248. Siltstone

     #3192125, posted on October 24, 2019 at 12:26 am

     Hazmatic- like your logic on War Service Home loans (as I do all your posts). My father had such a loan after WW2. He qualified because he’d gone to experience the diversity and the multi-cultural wonders of New Guinea. That loan was good for Mum (especially), Dad and 4 children.
249. Rex Mango

     #3192126, posted on October 24, 2019 at 12:27 am

     Hazmatic, the war Services Home Scheme is very good argument. Investing in land at that time in Australia was a great investment. One that any thinking capitalist would appreciate.
250. Infidel Tiger

     #3192127, posted on October 24, 2019 at 12:27 am

     Zuckerberg is moving towards Trump these days.

     He must be shit scared by what he hears Warren and the Dems saying.

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