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I didn’t know cars could get cancer, Leigh.
One of the fancies to be #1 AFL draft pick is from down the Western District of Victorianistan from an aboriginal settlement.
Report on WIN news when I was in Stobie Poland about how he was “first in his family to do VCE”.
I didn’t know cars could get cancer, Leigh.
3-5 year lifespan on the salt mine.
Then bits just fall off because there arent enough unrusted parts underneath to weld or strap any bits back on.
The harvesters are like grandfathers axe, every part has been replaced multiple times and the bottom half is built like a tank.
3-5 year lifespan on the salt mine.
Okay, thanks.
Not a valid comparison.
During WW2, Australia was under threat from a militarised imperial Japan.
Vietnam was never a military threat to Australia.
Under Curtin, Australian militia were only ever committed to Australian mandated territory during a declared war.
In Vietnam, the commitment was during peacetime on foreign soil.
The sample always gets biased because the weirdos are universally louder and more obnoxious than non-weirdos … thus any random scout about will show up a lot of weird stuff. People tend to be insensitive to mundane events, and therefore spend greater effort focused on the bizarre and unusual. Not saying that’s good or bad … but that’s how it works.
I must have the touch
What the hell is a barefoot circle and how does this confected slop help actual Aborigines?!
Not on the Cat. Here’s to the great composer.
Doesn’t matter what primers and paints they say they use, they will rust if you spray salt water on the underside.
In the USA a few years back and couldn’t figure out why cars in New England which were miles inland had heaps of rust.
Salt on the roads to prevent ice build up.
The US alliance believed in the domino theory.
The Russians/Chinese also had a plan along the same lines.
But unfortunately for them a retired mong herder from upper buttfuck saw through both sides plans and foiled them by being conscripted after failing to opt out in any of 1/2 a dozen ways and then spend the next 50+ years wailing about Menzies and his 12 inch rubber conscription phallus.
Fortunately Mong herder can remedy his ignorance by reading this paper which outlines some of what the Communists themselves were saying.
Either that or it can retrat back into its little bunker cradling “my precious” and remaining ignorant.
I wonder what it will choose?
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3035095?seq=1
Heres the CIAs appraisal in 55.
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP62-00865R000200250005-0.pdf
I reckon they would have called a halt a few years back if sweaty fast bowlers like Merv Hughes and Gus Gilmore took their socks off.
You’ll need a good sound system.
So, the Wallabies now tend to wear green, with aboriginal adornment, being the standard fare these days. Then a new version of the national anthem, with an aboriginal language first verse, This of course followed the obligatory welcome to country.
I hope they lose.
Which Aboriginal language was it? Won’t the others be miffed? Or are they planning to cycle through 100+?
The Kiwis had it easy.
The Abo way to take a knee. It’s been a tradition since about the beginning of the year.
It’s good for their ego to witness self-hating white people kowtowing to them. Helps justify the crimes they commit against us.
Golden retriever and its owner
Trick or treat ?
Jupiter and Saturn to align in the sky this month as ‘Christmas Star’
If so, what is the explanation for the CMF units in Australian forces in Dutch New Guinea during WW2?
The mandated territory was expanded.
done in 1943
This is how a geologist collects samples from an active volcano
“The mandate has been expanded, pray I don’t expand it any further”
Under Curtin, Australian militia were only ever committed to Australian mandated territory during a declared war.
Except for those who served in Dutch New Guinea, and on New Georgia in the British Solomon Islands, as the bin chicken has been informed on several occasions. He chooses to forget these facts, because the truth interferes with his “narrative”.
Who keeps on giving Miriam the Gargoyle work as an actress?
There is a whole field for underground, confined space utility work that remains lacking in representation from older left wing harridans.
Then a new version of the national anthem, with an aboriginal language first verse…
Advance Australia Fair was chosen as the national anthem by plebiscite.
Rugby Australia has no authority to change it.
I hope Argentina wallops them.
I tend to go for Wales, Ireland and the Argies.
Usually because they embarrass the Rainbow Unicorn edition Wallabies.
Virtue signal harder guys.
It will definitely make you better at football.
Waltzing Matilda is a better song.
Which one of five hundred or so languages will they choose?
From Nick at 6:49 pm:
Evidently the Aeropelican Sydney-Newcastle Commuter Flight Service Non Threatening Wallabies sang some gobbledegook from “Eora” (which is, as we all know, one of the 412 nations parliament formed by the 739,212 year old tribe that came second the first time someone challenged their indifferent hold on their sovereign nationses of peopleses who couldn’t boil water). They cannot play rugby, cannot fight and cannot sing their national anthem purely and simply.
They are simple fellows who should not be expected to remember so many things for a whole 80 minutes once a week. They have gone off the field for 10 minutes rest and choir practice.
Page 3 of the US election thread returns Ozblogistan is broken.
Curtin’s special little war zone outside Australian Territory. What was its purpose?
I wrecked it.
And it will stay wrecked until Sinc drums Lucious Quaintarse Cincinatius out of tye Brownies.
You’ll be off Bruce Pascoe’s Christmas card list…
I can access the page. Try restarting your device.
Around an hour ago, my computer was running slow. I turned off the system and restarted.
I prefer Ansett Wallabies.
I think Aeropelican still gets airborne occasionally.
No foe shall gather our harvest is the best national anthem we could have.
Being a libertarian nationalist republican is a lonely space in Australian politics.
It’s normal for Americans.
Set to the tune of “La Marseillaise.” I’m sick of a National Anthem that sounds like a dirge.
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How frickin slow is the rugby?
From Roger at 8:44 pm:
Watching the players milling about afterwards, discussing their fabulous game day bonus payments, it is clear the ARU has outsourced the TAA Harmless Wallaby jobs to a motley collection of Pacific Islanders who are all qualified but not good enough for All Black selection.
Some of them will no doubt be deported to New Zealand in the regular criminal clean ups but they will be replaced by others from the gangs in Greystanes and Blacktown.
If I were disinvited from the Mardi Gras I’d take it as a compliment.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-05/mardi-gras-votes-to-keep-nsw-police-in-parade/12954180
Business travellers and sports stars among exemptions from quarantine in new travel rules
GRANT SHAPPS announced today there will be no changes to the travel corridor list this week but that there will be a new business traveller exemption. Those travelling for “high value” business, and qualifying performing arts professionals, TV production staff, journalists and recently signed elite sportspersons will no longer need to self-isolate on their return to England from a country not on the travel corridor list.
Zulu,
That’s an improvement!
“You can take your Mardi Gras
And stick it up your….”
“Proud Wiradjuri woman” Riiiiight.
Sure, let’s keep on aping NZ, last year we were told the anthem was racist, along with Australia Day.
There is one Maori language.
There are hundreds of Aboriginal languages.
This is a shit idea.
Lame pics.
When it doesn’t suit the narrative certain facts are ignored.
Many of those conscripted under the third National Service Scheme 1951-1957 ultimately saw service in the Malayan Emergency and afterwards in Vietnam. Cpl Ian Brown, killed on June 21 1966, was eligible for the same ‘Anniversary of National Service Medal 1951-1972’ as those National Servicemen of the fourth scheme who also saw service in South Vietnam. The countless Nashos from the third scheme who ultimately served in Vietnam were all volunteers. (That’s going to mess with the maths…)
There are many circumstances of National Serviceman Brown’s death that can never fit the narrative. There are multiple awkward reasons why his death will be ignored…
If the Vietnam War is to be defined as a Civil War then the Malayan emergency and Confrontasi, which had it’s genesis in the Brunei Rebellion have to be also. A ridiculous proposition.
Those national servicemen of the fourth scheme who saw active service in Borneo are completely ignored. Awkward.
Even though National Servicemen of the fourth scheme fought and died in Borneo. They are written out of the Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam narrative because mention of these nasho embarrassments confirms the fact that Indonesia, not Vietnam was the raison d’être for the fourth National Service scheme. To protect the narrative this fact can never be admitted.
Further, those fourth scheme Nashos who were killed in Borneo on active service must never be named. They are memory-holed due to narrative necessity. There were two of them, both accidently killed.
A few weeks after the first accidental death of a fourth scheme Nasho in Vietnam – Errol Noack on May 24, 1966, Reg Brigland was killed in an accident in Borneo on July 31 1966.
Noack still gets press. Brigland – crickets.
Even more awkward is the fact that Brigland enlisted on call up and his service number became 3411676.
(That one fact – is going to completely mind fuck someone who demonstrably cannot even work out basic percentage problems.)
Sadly, on August 9 1966 (9 days before the fourth scheme nashos finest hour at the Battle of Long Tan) Geoff Mills was accidently killed in Borneo. Again Crickets.
To sustain the narrative some National Servicemen have to be unpersoned.
The members of the third national service scheme, who fought and died in Vietnam were all volunteers. None of them got the chance to chuck their “nasho medal” in the bin. Perhaps their descendants’ value it?
Vietnam was not the only conflict that the men of the fourth scheme of Australian national service fought and died in. Those Veterans of Borneo cannot be ignored and must be remembered.
The mind blowing cruelty of the Viet Cong communists was censored during the 1960’s and remains so today.
FMD! Did anybody else happen to catch the start of the Wallabies – Pumas match?
Raelene Castle may have left Australia, but they can’t remove her from the Wallabies.
They couldn’t find anybody who knew the words to the national anthem.
I’m not making this up!
Some chick they roped in was a real good sport & agreed to do it for them, but she just hummed & haa’d the tune, like you do when you don’t know the words.
Twenty Six million people in Australia, & those dickheads at Rugby Australia forgot to book a singer who knew the words to the national anthem.
South Vietnamese village headmen burned alive, their wives disemboweled, their children beheaded, but it’s all good, the Viet Cong were a bunch of gallant little Robin Hoods, fighting for their independence…
Glad to see you, prismatic. The bin chicken will be tying himself in knots on this blog tomorrow….
“Le Duan and Le Doc To – Their Part in My Victory.”
Just. Fucking. No.
Fine then Tailgunner, let’s be scientific about this.
[insert spooky music]
According to warcroft’s “Q” theory, today in the USA there will be
• [332] a “shutdown” where the patriots will “lose access” and
• [305] something “about the BREAK”,
• [341] also Obama’s presidential library will be raided.
[fade spooky music.]
So with Dec 5 having been going for only a few hours in USA we can check in 16 hours and review if any of these predictions actually happened.
This is crazy, but I’ll try anything once. But only once.
Pat Burgess a journalist of the old school wrote up an account of the the death of Ian Brown in Hoa Long Village for the Sydney Morning Herald in June 1966.
Twenty years later in 1986 in his memoir ‘Warco, Australian Reporters at War’ he admits to self-censorship in his reporting of the incident.
In Burgess’s opinion, he thought that in 1966 the Australian general public were not ready to tuck into their Weet Bix over the callous news that the pregnant teenage daughter of an ARVN soldier in Hoa Long had been expertly disembowelled to the point where both she and the foetus were still alive.
This outrage was intended to be bait to provoke a Medcap response from the newly established Task Force base at Nui Dat which would then be ambushed. However the Provosts returning from a different errand arrived in town first. Collins and Brown were completely accidental victims. As their vehicle entered, the villagers of Hoa Long, possibly coerced, swarmed their Land Rover to slow and stop it. When the Land Rover stopped the villagers dropped and 4 VC opened fire killing Brown.
As it turned out – the complicated bait was completely unnecessary.
Perhaps Burgess was right. Perhaps nobody wants to hear about such things over their Weet Bix. In 1966, 1986 or now.
Burgess in 1966 deliberately erroneously reported that the girl was injured in a self inflicted accident while “cutting maize.”
In his memoir Burgess regretted not telling the truth – but couldn’t work out anyway that he possibly could…
The AWM Commanders diaries record that 1ATF could have gone in mob handed. They didn’t. They went in softly, softly asked a few questions around town and readily got answers. They arrested the ambush bait “butcher” the next day.
It was a woman.
A point that will be lost on some – but not from Johnno…
This’ll be a larf, NPC.
Week In Pictures.
The top brass at Victoria University will be screaming “Oh Shit!”…. in a couple of days I reckon.
Backdraft!
Instead of trading insults with Lucius and the Talking Llama, just keep an eye on Jo Nova’s site where she’s providing updates re what’s really going on.
https://joannenova.com.au/
Yes. I’m reminded of Kipling.
Never, ever imagine that women in charge will give us a “softer” world. It’s a mirage.
You only have to look at the US election fraud and the single-minded, ant-like operatives. Or the BLM riots and race baiting.
Hero, that thread was fun at the start, now degenerated to Bird vs. Donut King. Lucius provided an excellent opportunity for a reasoned, point by point rebuttal. Thanks for the link to JoNova.
It was always going to be problematic reopening international flights.
Already we have a couple of interlopers jumping a connecting flight to Melbourne and spreading the joy.
Given Dan Andrews’ performance so far he could cancel Christmas over this.
“Glad to be of service” as the automatic doors said in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, much to the disgust of Marvin. You are one of the bright spots in this vale of tearaways, calli.
Surely the guy can just not go?
Ahahahah!
Good question
Thanks Tom.
Too good not to highlight
Our glorious “Media”
I want one. And the Advent calendar too!
An excellent WIP.
Australians now ahead of Florida Man in the headlines.
At least we’re succeeding at something.
bespoke
#3680998, posted on December 6, 2020 at 6:30 am
Clarify.
Are you defending the Uni?
Week In Pictures.
This 😁
I have one that says “I’m not anti social just anti idiot”
Daily dose of Vietnam!
No not at all but they have no way to force him to attend the kangaroo court. Unless I missed something ( highly likely)
The Vic Uni story is a lesson.
Don’t waste your time.
Do a Trade.
The Texas National Security Review has a piece about the US Navy losing control of the Western Pacific, and how to regain it. Will this happen under a Biden-Harris administration?
Read More.
bespoke
#3681012, posted on December 6, 2020 at 7:06 am
Are you defending the Uni?
No not at all but they have no way to force him to attend the kangaroo court. Unless I missed something ( highly likely)
10 years means fuck all then? It is called taking a stand, Bespoke. Uni admin needs a proverbial clip around the ear.
They destroyed that young man’s life over a private conversation. And continue to persue him. They need to be killed with fire.
I’m not a particularly vindictive person (😀) but it would interest me to know what type of “psychologist” his creepy classmate becomes.
Justice would have her practising on the bones of her bum while he’s swanning around in the SUV, jetski on the trailer. And the other car tucked away in the McMansion triple garage.
Luckily he wasn’t mistaken for a tree
Blending in! Prince Harry is ‘mistaken for a Christmas tree SALESMAN by a little boy in a parking lot holiday store’ while he and Meghan were shopping for decor for their $14M home
Chill! He has moved on and becoming a sparky so the the board has no authority over him and should be treated with contempt.
That Prince Harry story reminded me of this.
On many…many levels. 😂
At Port Madoc in North Wales we see men riding down a hill on their way home from a quarry on little metal bars with three wheels. They sit on the bars that run over the inner quarry truck tracks and ride to the foot of the hill. The men stop at the bottom by means of a hand brake on their poles. An obviously staged accident shows one man coming off the track and several others toppling off after him. (1:27)
“They destroyed that young man’s life over a private conversation. And continue to persue him.”
These same people call Trump a fascist!
CNN have now done a hit piece on Parler…..because Parler is becoming more popular by the day and so the MSM and Big Tech want to see it shut down or collapse. CNN is smearing Parler as a site for far-right neo-Nazis which just means it’s a site for anyone who doesn’t conform with the progressive left….
‘They destroyed that young man’s life over a private conversation. And continue to persue him. They need to be killed with fire.’
Victoria University was making a much more valuable contribution to the common weal – and probably behaving with more integrity – when it was the Melbourne School of Hairdressing.
I’ve been in Sydney supporting a friend who has undergone a serious and painful but not life threatening medical procedure.
Diagonally across the road for the hospital is the Sydney Jewish Museum. Not surprisingly, it’s exhibits have a strong focus on the Holocaust.
Between the hospital and the Museum is scruffy little park, one corner of which tends to be used by hospital staff on breaks. Another area is occupied by emaciated men who scream incoherently at one another.
On the western boundary of the park, about 50 meters from the Museum, is a sculptural installation featuring a large pink triangle. This is the Gay and Lesbian Holocaust Memorial.
The placement of a memorial that appears to equate the persecution of Gays and Lesbians with the Holocaust almost next door to a Jewish Museum seems odd. An unkind person might suggest that it was deliberately in one’s face. On the other hand, it maybe an agreed gesture of solidarity between two persecuted groups, one assumes, after all, that the Jewish Museum was consulted.
To be fair, the G&L Memorial seems to be about the historic persecution in general of that group rather then just Nazi enmity. To its credit, the G&L Memorial coverage includes persecution by the Soviet Union.
Tiny little anecdote about how Vic Uni’s low ranking was no barrier to the pomposity of it’s “leadership”.
I once worked for a company which shared a city building with VU. Uni buildings have a higher density of people than normal office buildings and lifts work overtime.
Anyway, the the Uni head-shed including the VC and his wife (not a Uni employee) and a couple of associated “dignitaries” had a number of lift keys and their minions would snag a lift and lock it off for them in anticipation of them leaving.
Mrs VC apparently used to call ahead in traffic to make sure there was a lift waiting for her in the carpark when she arrived.
The easiest answer isn’t the only answer.
Rick Santelli brings it.
CNN have now done a hit piece on Parler
Parler is hitting itself. Have been trying to sign up for three weeks but keep getting endless CAPTCHA security checks. Have complained three times to Parler, each acknowledged with a promise to investigate, but no fix installed.
Their users’ ledger would be even bigger if they could attend to the most basic need of all: allowing people to join.
I know of someone who is a diversity officer at a Victorian University. On women’s day, they sent letters out congratulating women and those who identified as such, having to be mindful of those ‘fluid’ souls who might not have identified as being a woman on that day, and thus being insulted, complaining.
I feel sorry for the guy involved in the Vic Uni case. That’s far in excess of a proportionate response on their part.
“Parler is hitting itself. Have been trying to sign up for three weeks but keep getting endless CAPTCHA security checks. Have complained three times to Parler, each acknowledged with a promise to investigate, but no fix installed.
Their users’ ledger would be even bigger if they could attend to the most basic need of all: allowing people to join.”
Agree Areff….I have tried numerous times to join but I gave up in the end. I posted the Styx video to highlight how the MSM and the tech giants are now out destroy Parler, precisely because it provides an alternative platform to the sewer that is Twitter.
Many people, over the last few years, have said in regards to Big Tech censorship…..”oh just create your own”…..etc…etc….etc. The thing, when there are new platforms such as Gab, Parler, Subscribestar and others, the left go after them in a frenzy to smear them and delegitimise them as havens for far-right neo nazis.
We can’t win.
It goes back to banking licensing. It hinges on payment processors.
No shit, try Mobi Money, or crypto.
It would be hilarious of the western left tried to go after an African mobile phone credit system that turned into a new banking system.
Cassie of Sydney
#3681104, posted on December 6, 2020 at 9:40 am
I would like to but I refuse to give my mobile number.
Not even Google or FB insists on that, sure they ask for it but a refusal does not offend them.
From memory, Vic Uni used to like to associate with a couple of luminaries in the East Timor independence movement (Gusmao?).
Not sure if they are going to bat for those oppressed by the CCP.
Strangely, he has a point. Putting things in Aboriginal ‘languages’ achieves or does what ?
Yes.
If they did “Mammy” or “Camptown Races” in full minstrel garb, would it be OK if it was done in first nations lingo?
It was such bullshit though.
A bunch of privileged, woke, gullible Shore dimwits and competent, money hungry Pacific Islanders listening to a Wiradjuri woman sing in Eora on behalf of the Gadigal.
Singing an uninspiring anthem hardly anyone likes, heavily redacted.
The NZ National Anthem was first written in Maori and translated into English. It has an authenticity.
We run the risk here in Australia of putting indigenous designs on everything, drawn up by those who have little idea of their own culture. The ‘dance’ that Adam Goodes did was crafted by kids on an AFL camp and was a hodge podge of tribal elements that would have had little to do with his own background.
My point is the real racists are the ones that think by spouting any mambo jumbo that sounds indigenous, that they are paying respect.
Nailed it.
Well I voted for Waltzing Matilda and like every other poll plebiscite call it what you will it was a exercise in vacuousness as it was presumed determined by Hawke anyway.
Sorry Whitlam.
Oh, and I’ll bet my last dollar that traditional Aboriginal culture wouldn’t allow a young woman to perform a greeting ritual. My point? If you’re going to go the indigenous route, get it right.
From memory, Vic Uni used to like to associate with a couple of luminaries in the East Timor independence movement (Gusmao?).
Not sure if they are going to bat for those oppressed by the CCP.
They sure wouldn’t.
That idiot John Howard used Australian troops to install a bunch of Communists in government in East Timor.
All correct but I take exception to the Shore descriptor. Unless it’s a generalisation. Looking at the school photo tells me you are right about the demographics.
I have a boy at Shore and they have hardly won a rugby game for many years, and no-one has graduated to the Wallabies.
OSC. Word is there are issues at Shore at present. Five Hods gone and a number on the Executive.
As areff says, Parler is in the tech business and it can’t overcome even the most basic software snafus. Hopeless.
The sociopathic Silicon Valley HTML-code-writing billionaires got to be billionaires because, before they started censoring their platforms, the set up their software to work like a dream.
Footy star Latrell Mitchell SLAMS the Wallabies for performing an indigenous rendition of Advance Australia Fair – saying changing the language of the national anthem ‘doesn’t change the meaning’
Strangely, he has a point.
No, he doesn’t.
Presumably he’s referring to “young and free”.
Australia as a nation has only existed since 1901, which is young in historical terms, esp. as compared with England, where most of our ancestors hailed from.
There is no slight against indigenous folk intended – they never imagined themselves to be a nation inhabiting a continent.
Mitchell is a divisive ratbag.
‘Footy star Latrell Mitchell SLAMS the Wallabies’
Oh. Porky, sensitive pisswreck masquerading as a footballer slams multiple other equally useless footballers.
Thrilling.
Roger, I know what you mean, though he makes another point he doesn’t realise.
KD.
I told Mrs L that Nafan Buckley was on the market again.
She didn’t think it would be an upgrade.
Not to unnecessarily reprise the breakdown of a marriage – except that it’s Nathan Buckley’s, and to mention that the past week may have just been the greatest of his life:
‘A premiership still eludes the former Pies skipper turned coach who has been staying at a South Yarra apartment owned by good friend Paul Roberts, a sports executive at agency TLA.
‘The pad has served many heartbroken AFL types.
‘Geelong great Billy Brownless reportedly stayed there when his marriage with former wife Nicky Brownless was on the rocks. It’s understood James Brayshaw also spent some time living there when he was dealing with the breakdown of his marriage.’
Points of note:
1. They couldn’t resist yet another crack at Buckley’s premiership virginity, which is of course hilarious in the circumstances;
2. This Roberts bloke should be AOTY; and
3. Apparently it is now burned into the psyche of Australian men that when it all ends, regardless of circumstance that it’s the bloke who ends up on someone else’s couch because superior caregiving and nurturing. It’s a shit state of affairs that needs redress.
That’s an inconvenient truth.
If I may offer a comparison, which resonates both in football and other areas:
Damien Hardwick, Wit-Mon* coach. Makes mention on occasion of ‘Mrs Hardwick’ in pressers and the like, mostly in lighter moments. Mrs Hardwick, however, is never seen parading her bolt-ons in public, is not a wether dressing up as lamb and does not spend her days trying her best to get herself added onto everyone else’s Insta.
Sure, Buckley T’s no Nadia Bartel, Mardi Dangerfield (ewww) or Whatsername, Cochin’s squeeze in the influencer stakes, but at least those skanks are attempting to make some coin for themselves.
As noted yesterday, Buckley has a head like a handful of gravel but will still pull some decent talent because profile. Mrs Buckley, welcome to the nunnery. Now, about that vow of silence.
Can Rugby Australia go any lower? Why yes, yes they can.
That rendition of our National Anthem was terrible and she didn’t even know the words.
Oops.
*Allegedly, if you meet a person of Asian extraction in a Fitzroy or Flemington houso castle stairwell and they’re not being the ultimate citizen, and you ‘ask’ them where they live and if it’s Richmond, ‘Wit-Mon’ is the answer you’ll get.
Trump rally (Valdosta GA) livestream.
Sleeping outside my Doctor’s Office on a Sunday so that I am first in line to get the Russian Sputnik V Chinavirus Vaccine on Monday when they open.
#WINNING!!!!
Great, now we will have Stimpy posting with a Russian accent for the next 6 months till the injected vodka wears off.
I predict this will be tonight’s crowd chant: ‘FOX NEWS SUCKS!!!”
Their ABC’s Stan Grant extends an olive branch to China:
As China hysteria reaches fever pitch, let’s not pretend morality is a good basis of foreign policy
In summary, Stan tells us:
It will be better that way. Apparently.
Four more years!
Suspect he’s referring to “wealth for toil”.
We are winning!
Yep. All dating from the appointment of the new headmaster.
Cam Smith and his wife send their kids to our school now they’ve moved to GC.
Very sweet kids – lots didn’t believe them when they said who their dad was until they checked online pics of kids. Wife does not take after wags.
Actually walked into a hall with them and didn’t notice it was them until my wife said the guy sitting right in front of us was him.
Not sure where he will play next year but money would be on titans.
Great, now we will have Stimpy posting with a Russian accent for the next 6 months till the injected vodka wears off.
That’s actually a very serious and logical point:
What are the potential side effects?
I can live with a Russian accent and a craving for Vodka,
but what if it turns me into a Commie?
I may have to do some more dedicated online Twitter research before I inject an unknown substance into my veins.
No need to act like an ignorant young Essendon Football player and just do what I’m told.
Your initial presumption was correct. It was Hawke, not Whitlam, who gave Australia the national dirge.
I posted a comment earlier today noting that the ‘Gay and Lesbian Holocaust Memorial’ in Darlinghurst, Sydney was located almost next door to the Sydney Jewish Museum, which has a considerable – and understandable – focus on the Holocaust
I suggested – arguably – that a memorial that appears to equate Gay and Lesbian persecution with the Holocaust might have been more appropriately located somewhere else.
The comment went into moderation and has not come out. Why??
I may have to do some more dedicated online Twitter research before I inject an unknown substance into my veins.
Why start now?
Its a Krockdil derivative not vodka.
Take enough of it and you will become long term extremely stable.
Nice looking girl, fine voice. The National Dirge is more like a National Anthem when sung that way.
‘ Stan is an A1 world class China expert;’
Stan is an A1 world class expert per se.
Grant has morphed from a TV newsreader to an intellectual powerhouse with a mind that transverses the global entirety of current and historical philosophy, politics, history and culture.
Do we think he might have had help?
I don’t mind it, if a bit of a copy of singing the enzud anthem in Maori.
sTan Grant gets his superior intellectual powers from the Tanning Saloon.
She was word perfect.
Should have had Ben Batterham sing it.
Would have brought the house down.
‘Nice looking girl,’
Racist and sexist.
Olivia Fox is a Proud Wiradjuri woman.
And yes, the Channel 7 report actually used the descriptor, ‘proud’ , mandatory now, it would seem, in refering to any Indigenous woman
He’s Aunty’s new International Affairs commentator or summut?
He was as beetroot faced as anyone when Trump was ahead late on Aunty’s Election night Special, despite seemingly playing with a straight bat.
Is “proud local drunkard” an apt descriptor, nowadays?
I believe so. I’ve no skin in the game, though it’s been a topic of frenzied conversation for some who do
The wonderful Titaina McGrath strikes again:
“I am so proud of Elliot Page for transitioning and becoming a beacon of hope for humanity.
That said, now Page is a straight white man he is officially an oppressor and deserves nothing but our contempt.”
#CancelElliotPage
h/t Instapundit.
It’s totally not racist to have a Wiradjuri “girl” sing in Eora and make constant references to the Gadigal.
It’s totally aware of privilege and can heal the nation and totally not tokenism.
she didn’t even know the words
Hard to when it’s just mostly made up gobbledygook.
Strayans let us all rejoice, for Benny Batterham is free!
He greased that Ricky sumbitch,
Whose ice addled heart joyfully strained
Now let us sing
Ricky breathes no air!
Good summary and breakdown of the official chunk virus approach:
If the masks work—Why the six feet?
If the six feet works—Why the masks?
If both of the above work—Why the lockdowns?
If all three of the above work—Why the vaccine?
If the vaccine is safe—Why protect it with a no liability clause?
If the vaccine is safe—Why not test it on animals first before using it on humans?
If SARS-CoV-2 exists—Why has it never been isolated?
If SARS-CoV-2 has never been isolated—How can an effective vaccine be developed?
If the RT-PCR test works—Why so many false positives?
If Kary Mullis, the inventor of the RT-PCR test who conveniently died in August 2019, says his test shouldn’t be used to diagnose infectious diseases—Why use it to detect SARS-CoV-2?
If there is an epidemic—Why so many empty hospitals?
If large numbers of people are dying from SARS-CoV-2—Why so many fake causes of death on death certificates?
If SARS-CoV-2 exists—Why give doctors financial incentives to diagnose SARS-CoV-2?
If the official COVID-19 narrative is defensible—Why censor people who dispute this narrative?
It’s totally not racist to have a “Wiradjuri” girl sing in Eora and make constant references to the Gadigal.
Brilliant.
The more these power hungry fascists are lampooned about their brain-damaged woke outrage machine, the harder it will be for them to walk the street without being laughed at.
Then went back for a second round in 2006 … trying to fix it up from the first time, and give Alkatiri a little push to resign.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Astute
It all got less interesting after drilling for oil in the Timor Sea ended up something of a dud.
Not entirely a dud.
Not if you were doing the lawyering or pre-feasibility engineering for the parties involved.
You people arguing about anthems and so on are missing the point.
We have a perfectly acceptable one here. It has everything: humour, a moral, a message – go for it.
Hey, that’s a half truth!
The history of injection moulded AR-15 lowers:
What a shame that Tik Tok dance videos featuring otherwise idle on duty doctors and nurses have seemingly gone out of fashion. They were by far the best part of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The deputy governor of the Norwegian central bank, Jon Nicolaisen, announced on Friday he was resigning because his application for renewed security clearance had been rejected because he has a Chinese wife.
“The Norwegian Civil Security Clearance Authority informs me that the reason that I will not receive a renewed security clearance is that my wife is a Chinese citizen and resides in China, where I support her financially,” Nicolaisen said. “At the same time, they have determined that there are no circumstances regarding me personally that give rise to doubt about my suitability for obtaining a security clearance, but that this does not carry sufficient weight.”
A large part of the dudness came from handing de facto control to the Timor l’Este government fuckupcracy. The inevitable result has been that a technically difficult, frontier exploration province has been uprisked to the extent that nobody with skills and resources is prepared to work there anymore.
Thanks, cohenite. Covers many of my questions plus some extra juicy ones I hadn’t thought of.
Saved.
Oh, look who’s trying to steal an election.
Democide up and away?
Don’t start me. The Coke ads with Chinese doctors doing some rather lame dancing made me want to blind myself with some pidgin rum.
Hold the Coke.
Australia had better pull it’s finger out WRT East Timor. The economic viability is moot if it is financed under belt and road, in fact, it’s a perfect debt trap:
..
Australia’s McCain-Romney ‘conservatives’ continue to do what they do best: sell out in order to be Nice and Liked by leftists.
Chris Kenny in The Australian wants the Aboriginal industry to have a “voice” (code for veto) vis-a-vis Parliament:
Why Indigenous Australians must have their say.
It’s actually embarrassing reading a supposedly tuned-in conservative writing something like that and believing it.
No, Chris. It’s not too much to ask that Aborigines look after their own fucking children. And yeah – that they stop sexually abusing them on a massive scale.
‘not too much to ask that a formal Indigenous representative body gives them some guidance’
As to the best way to obtain more and better free stuff, wrapped in somebody else’s cash to better their own personal circumstances and that of their immediate family whilst giving the giant middle finger to people who could actually use it for its intended purpose.
550 comments so far, and very few supporting the “voice” – Most are along the lines of “look after your children and stop trashing your houses.”
The voice will be strictly advisory, limited in scope, and focused only on Indigenous issues.
Right up there with “Ill only put the tip in” and “I wont do that thing you dont like in your mouth, again”.
The Indigenous child faces significantly lower prospects of surviving to adulthood, completing an education, getting a job, staying out of jail, enjoying good health and living into old age than the nonIndigenous baby
Why?
Fucking 3rd nations have a voice; every election, like every other Australian citizen, they can vote.
Or since the bastards walked here 15000 bya, they can put on their thongs and piss off.
Their land my arse.
Dunno how many tribes there are of Aboriginal Australians, but a quick search suggests 500 or more
So for each tribe to have a “voice” that would mean 500 representatives, all being paid, one presumes.
And a voting process, and a controller, generally called a Speaker, and a staff?
It really sounds like a super ATSIC, and that did more harm than good.
I must have been sleeping in the day that particular gravy train left the station. I’m not even slightly sore about it, but I sure see this as a great time to once more blame John Howard and his numpty “conservative” supporters. Possibly the most anti-liberty PM this country ever had.
This thread needs more catgirls.
The addition of cat ears makes it sophisticated
This sums up Covid-1984 very well.
I’ll bet good money it will put ATSIC in the shade, and I’ll bet I could name who will be on the gravy train
Dunno who’s on the Oz moderator job today but they are pretty relaxed.
My comment above, copied and pasted, just got up, under Chris Kenny’s article.
E Timor were able to fleece Australia but enabled by the UN. Time I went there it was crawling with Chinese & Aussie do gooders. I’ll have to ask someone I know from Woodside but an educated guess is that corruption is the main reason Woodside doesn’t want a bar of it. Chinese companies were regularly out bidding Australian companies and providing shoddy outcomes. As for the 4 lane Hwy, good luck with that. I know of a mamoth effort put in near Balibo by RAE engineers with all the mod cons not the cheap crap the Chicoms will build, lasted a couple of years.
Meh, Chinese will get burnt in the end anyway. E Timor had corruption unlike anything else I have seen in Asia.
Watching Stan’s fawning ‘interview’ with intellectual fossil, Stephen Fry the other night was amusing. Stan was doing pretty pirouettes, pleased to be talking with someone he considers an equal. Fry, who has never been in danger of having an original thought couldn’t have been less interested. I sympathised.
Politico reports that his firm, Perkins Coie, is representing Ms. Hart.
The same firm that handled the money side of the Shrillary campaign hiring a failed James Bond to liaise with Russian intelligence to cook up the bogus Wussia, Wussia, Wussia dossier?
The Cheatorats have their crooked lawyers on tap?
Re VIC Uni above it may be a rumour but I believe that one year the ATAR score you needed to get into law there was 29 out of 100
Seem to recall Christopher Hitchens saying Stephen Fry is a morons idea of an intellectual.
The blackfellas have more trouble agreeing than The People’s Front of Judaea.
H B Bear you mean The People of Judea Front.
H B Bear you mean The People of Judea Front.
No…no; that was a break away group after the great purge.
What is the most important variable in life outcomes: Not governments, not policies, not money. It is the childhood home environment. Fix that and that gaps will being to close. The reason why all the current interventions don’t work is because they barely address that variable. We have to keep raising that point but unsurprisingly no-one does because that puts indigenous parenting under scrutiny.
A teacher noted that a young aboriginal boy was always falling asleep in class. Eventually she asked him why he wasn’t getting enough sleep at home. With tears in his eyes he explained that every night he had to round up the young girls and take them to sleep away from the adult males who would come at night to rape them. That’s fucking horrendous.
Love or money – the tough decisions.
The head of Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the biggest investor of its kind, worth $US1.2 trillion ($1.6 trillion), has been forced to resign because his Chinese wife is considered a security risk.
Jon Nicolaisen, 61, failed a security check eight months after taking over the fund, built on Norwegian oil revenue, which owns almost 1.5 per cent of every listed company in the world. (The Australian)
A sensible chuckle, particularly if you like the John Wick movies.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8ae29a5c94198b67f71f6153857a19bfabe1126b1a369d6da538c91d3977f572.jpg
Brave boy.
True in functioning societies everywhere. And outside the legitimate scope of government too.
A bit of an elephant in the room, really.
Scientists Reverse the Aging Clock: Restore Age-Related Vision Loss Through Epigenetic Reprogramming
And why the heterosexual family unit has been under attack from the Left since forever.
Good wrap with latest from Light-fingered Ruby, the ballot stuffer
I think there is deep wisom in some of the quotes you find on the internet.
This one will surprise a lot of people who recognize the chaps name.
https://www.azquotes.com/author/31969-Russ_Meyer
Trump mentioned in today’s speech that it had wrecked some Economies – only the rich can afford the Plandemic!
There are leaders out there prepared to stand up to dictators.
Sheriff Bianco from Riverside County delivers his message.
The Telegraph
“A teacher noted that a young aboriginal boy was always falling asleep in class. Eventually she asked him why he wasn’t getting enough sleep at home. With tears in his eyes he explained that every night he had to round up the young girls and take them to sleep away from the adult males who would come at night to rape them. That’s fucking horrendous.”
It’s dystopian. This is what Jacinta Price talks about….forget about more more failed tokenism such as “the voice” which just makes inner city elites feel good, we need to deal with the real daily horrendous issues effecting indigenous communities.
Nick
#3681537, posted on December 6, 2020 at 5:10 pm
The Telegraph
Two “drag queens” are suing Christian crusader Lyle Shelton for criticising their library performances with children, in a landmark $20,000 legal fight.”
Bet they win too.
Chillin’ funk soul brother.
The stupidest thing you will read today.
Shareholders can’t force businesses to act morally. But governments can
Phillip Inman
This vapid shitweasel thinks because Smith relied on the morality of his businessmen to promote the “greater good”, lack of religiosity among businesspeople now means government must set morals instead.
Because government is such a good arbiter of morality.
The bible in question was written by Adam Smith, the 18th-century Scottish moral philosopher and economist whose phrase “the invisible hand” is trotted out by every pro-market evangelist keen to justify the idea that governments should let businesses get on with selling, unfettered except by the most basic regulations.
Milton Friedman, the monetarist guru to Margaret Thatcher’s top advisers, was cited as wantonly abusing Smith’s arguments – though there were many others still making a living in the world’s rightwing thinktanks who perpetrated the same misreading, Carney said.
Smith used the phrase just once in his most important book, The Wealth of Nations (and only three times in his entire canon). But he devoted many pages to the need for an active state and, after observing their effects on fellow humans, the idea that rich owners of capital should observe a higher morality that circumscribes their activities.
…
Smith lived in a religious age and appealed to the charity of his readers. Without religion, chief executives have only the profit motive and the bonus to guide them. And with capital often in the hands not of a single owner-manager but of millions of shareholders, it is less clear to voters and the public at large how Smith’s moral sentiments can be translated into action today.
…
Only cross-party, popular action, forcing governments to impose rules on corporate behaviour, can inject some morality where so little manifestly exists.
If you want a secure career as a catamite, scribing pro government/ regulation/snivel serpent propaganda seems to be a steady line of work.
BLM gets a lesson in how ‘trained Marxism’ really works, as leader rakes in millions while chapters get nothing
Two “drag queens” are suing Christian crusader Lyle Shelton for criticising their library performances with children, in a landmark $20,000 legal fight.”
Bet they win too.
They failed in the HRC so are now sniffing around in QCAT which can award compensation to sniffers like these 2. QCAT awards are appealed to the QSCA.
Dr. Wodarg and Dr. Yeadon request a stop of all corona vaccination studies and call for co-signing the petition
A detailed analysis of the tests, papers and processes followed in vaccine trials.
43-page Petition/Motion for Administrative/Regulatory Action
Don’t know if The Oz mentioned it, but I read elsewhere that one of the major concerns about this bloke is that his ‘wife’ lives in China while he lives in Norway. Bit of an unconventional arrangement there, I would have thought.
Noice, “vapid shitweasel'” lol love it frollicking. I hope you don’t mind if I borrow.
Just watched that young man from Victoria University who had his career wrecked for cracking a private Facebook joke. It’s unbelievable that he should have been so hounded and disparaged on the basis of such a one-off callow joke that was clearly said in jest and for which he immediately apologised when he realised his erstwhile friend was offended. I hope he seeks some financial compensation from this obviously very poorly run university, number 33 in Australia, and not in much of a position to put off any further capable students like this young man. Who would want to go there now?
Hope he makes a fortune in his new career as an electrician and uses his academic skills to write a best-selling expose of his wrecked youth at Victoria University.
Helen Garner (leftie, but sort of OK) has written a few books exposing such politically correct idiocy and what it’s like to get ground under its thumb. I’m thinking of him writing something like that, with help if necessary. These stories need to be told, in all of their awful vindictiveness.
If a catgirl, mothgirl or dragon girl approaches, ask if she’s been good.
Good girls get headpats.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/blade-devil-ghosts-of-the-past-graphic-novel#/
That would be a good project, Lizzie.
What annoys me about these gotchas that ruin people’s lives is that there would be hardly anyone who could not be gotchad if every word they ever said or wrote was available for perusal by our new arbiters. It’s a hit and miss exercise in social control based on whether some unfortunate person said or wrote something that is captured on social media, and breaks the noo rools that were applied as of yesterday.
I do wish that people would stop apologising to these jackbooters and start telling them to stick it up their collective jumper. The myth that this PC rubbish holds the endorsement of the majority of the population needs to be confronted. It’s simply not true, as the election of Trump, that loathsome prick Johnson, and Morrison demonstrate. Each of them had opponents who were in full suck-up mode to our would-be social arbiters.
It is hilarious to watch the sporting codes, especially the football codes, try to turn their uncouth yobs into caring SJWs. The cognitive dissonance must be excruciating. 🙂
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Never underestimate the power of fanservice.
The rational argument about the Global Climate Change Warming topic would convince those with the powers of reason that the topic is a hoax. Instead of using up words and logic, we should apply the adage, A picture is worth a thousand words, and use that for our debates with the other side.
I am going to collect some, and post under the Catallaction Club. But for now, here are two that I’ve already posted. If you can, print or make posters and hand over to those worried that our poor planet is burning up, because we have not been making the necessary sacrifices.
The Czar and The Czarina
If you have any examples (and sources) with simple messages to highlight the hypocrisy, please contribute and I will add to the list. Such as the Obama house with views of the Atlantic ocean. Or Raindrop Harry’s mansion.
“Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
#3681592, posted on December 6, 2020 at 6:38 pm
Helen Garner (leftie, but sort of OK) has written a few books exposing such politically correct idiocy and what it’s like to get ground under its thumb. I’m thinking of him writing something like that, with help if necessary. These stories need to be told, in all of their awful vindictiveness.”
Agree Lizzie. As for Garner, she is without a doubt one of Australia’s finest writers….who can forget The First Stone, Joe Cinque’s Consolation and This House of Grief.
I own two mugs and broke a third one at work.
Get a ten pack of Blade Devil…
This is the way forward. DC and Marvel are dying.
Thank god.
Joe Cinque’s Consolation is one of the most miserable books Ive ever read.
And I mean that in a good way.
It just fills you with dread and follows it up with injustice and grief.
“thefrollickingmole
#3681614, posted on December 6, 2020 at 7:02 pm
Joe Cinque’s Consolation is one of the most miserable books Ive ever read.
And I mean that in a good way.
It just fills you with dread and follows it up with injustice and grief.”
Yep…I found the book incredibly hard to read.
Why can’t Cardinal Pell’s media critics let go?
In the logic of true believers, if he looks innocent, he must be guilty.
The article is here.
DC and Marvel are dying
Cant be too soon.
I mean imagine launching this syphilis filled wad of cock cheese on the poor suffering public.
http://www.multiversitycomics.com/news/i-am-not-starfire/
Full synopsis:
Seventeen-year-old Mandy Koriand’r is not her mother. Daughter of Starfire and high school outcast, Mandy is constantly trying to get out from under the shadow of her bright, bubbly, scantily clad, and famous mother. Dyeing her bright orange hair black and sticking close to her best friend, Lincoln, Mandy spends her days at school avoiding Teen Titans superfans and trying to hide her feelings for the gorgeous, popular, and perfect Claire. And while Mandy usually avoids spending too much time with her alien mother, she’s been particularly quiet as she’s keeping one major secret from her: Mandy walked out of her S.A.T.
While Mandy continues to tell Lincoln her plans of moving to France to escape the family spotlight and not go to college, she secretly hides a fear of not knowing her identity outside of just being the daughter of a superhero and who she will become. But when she is partnered with Claire to work on a school project, their friendship develops into something more and a self-confidence unknown to Mandy begins to bloom. Claire seems to like Mandy for being Mandy, not the daughter of Starfire.
But when someone from Starfire’s past comes to disrupt Mandy’s future, Mandy must finally make a choice: give up before the battle has even begun, or step into the unknown and risk everything. I Am Not Starfire is a story about mother-daughter relationships, embracing where you come from while finding your own identity, and learning to be unafraid of failing, if it was even failing in the first place.
I do not have the time to check out the names behind the strong voices belting the defence department toy soldiers at the very top of the Australian army etc.
Channel Seven just broadcast that gutless turd Campbell continuing to dump garbage on the men for whom he is responsible.
A week after he was exposed as a dishonorable grub Campbell is still at it, bagging better men. Who did he pay to get that job, how much did it cost him? He surely did not earn it.
‘learning to be unafraid of failing’
Edited synopsis:
Mandy is a failure.
Mandy Koriand’r looks like the lovechild of Starfire and Danny se Vito’s Penguin
At least she doesn’t want to go to college.
At least she doesn’t want to go to college.
Worse, she wants to go to France and braid her girlfriends armpit hair.
Goodfellas on FTA tonight. Will I couch-surf and channel-flip through my 800th viewing of what has been called “the greatest guy film” ever made?
Probably.
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Funny how?
Please shut up C.L.
Now go home and get your fuckin’ shinebox.
Here’s one:
Frequent flyer and multi-homeowner Barack Obama disapproves of your lifestyle (5 Dec)
His Martha’s Vineyard mansion is about a metre above the dramatically rising sea level. Maybe he plans to put it up on stilts or something.
‘One dog goes one way, the other dog goes the other way, and this guy’s sayin’, ‘Whadda ya want from me?”
‘We hit a deer, Ma.’
why cant comics stick to nice wholesome themes that bring the family together?
https://boingboing.net/2012/10/08/supergod-warren-elli.html
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Leigh Lowe:
Sounds about par for the course.
It’s one of the reasons I really don’t give a damn about the Universities going broke.
written by Lionel Murphy
mole
Have you seen Chargeman Ken?
The second worst anime ever, apparently.
No fucking half dead cetaceans though.
Onto read up on Twinkle Nora Rock Me.
The worst, apparently.
Just finished watching Sitting Bull. Not bad, although the fateful hillside looked like the MGM back lot.
The Alamo did not feature.
Areff:
Same here. I’ve tried now over a dozen times to get past the captcha roadblock, without success.
Just about to give up.
Anime. Tentacles.
Westerns.
A niche market just opened up.
Helen Garner is probably the pick of the crop of fiction writers of her vintage.
Re the endless examples of our betters not following the rules – it’s quite simple when you understand that this applies to all rules in their mindset. So, the seas will rise, but not on their coastal home, the virus will infect others, but not them, and so on.
None of the rules apply to them, including the ones they compel others to follow. They are special.
Egg:
For me, it is.
Quality Japanese Animation.
This episode of Chargeman Ken is the father of all memes.
“Tee hee, I made a mistake!”
I am not a fan of wage controls, but I reckon any government would be on a winner restricting Vice Chancellor (and all university salaries) to less than $400k.
Goodfellas on FTA tonight. Will I couch-surf and channel-flip through my 800th viewing of what has been called “the greatest guy film” ever made?
Don’t be silly.
The greatest bloke films ever made were The Great Escape & Zulu.
The later fascination with Italo-American mobsters signifies cultural decline.
Areff:
Parler is hitting itself. Have been trying to sign up for three weeks but keep getting endless CAPTCHA security checks. Have complained three times to Parler, each acknowledged with a promise to investigate, but no fix installed.
Same here. I’ve tried now over a dozen times to get past the captcha roadblock, without success.
Just about to give up.
I got through first time. They are tricky but doable. If you have any way of showing me I will try and give you the answer…
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz is for Zulu.
The Great Escape is pure cornball.
‘This episode of Chargeman Ken is the father of all memes.’
Displays what’s wring with today’s society. A decent belt across the chops from Mum sorts out a lot of shit.
*wrong*
The most uplifting bloke fillems of all time are “The Full Monty” and “Billy Elliot”.
At one point in history, Lawrence of Arabia was the greatest bloke movie of all time.
Garner also stood up to the “harassment” hysterics in The First Stone (1992). I remember reading her reaction to the police being called in to Ormond College.
“The police?” she wrote, incredulous.
Nearly 30 years later, there’s an anonymous bimbo dragging some poor bastard through the courts every other day.
The cover-your-arse view of DPPs today is ‘just charge him and see what happens.’
That made me laugh.
I am not a fan of wage controls, but I reckon any government would be on a winner restricting Vice Chancellor (and all university salaries) to less than $400k.
How about no public servant makes more than $400,000 including all the pollies.
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Goodfellas. Tombstone (the ‘I’m in mah prime’ one). Reservoir Dogs.
The original Highlander. Cobra. The Untouchables. Casino. Scarface.
Pulp Fiction. Predator. Aliens. Wick I, II and III. All the Expendables ones. Terminator II. Each minute of every Dirty Harry movie. Training Day.
Every one of them better than TGE.
And you have to put +61 in the space currently with +1.