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I saw it 1979 in Sydney. Bertolucci marathon 4 movies at the theatre I think was in Pitt st. just down from Goulburn st. Films were Before the Revolution, The Conformist, Last Tango and 1900.
No, you are not.
There are a few here who do want to act and do something, but it feels like solitary voices against the tide.
I enjoy this forum, but there are times when the emoting goes on and on and on
I ordered Thai food and cracked another beer
***She turned sixteen at the start of 87. Year twelve at sixteen, unlikely.***
Not unlikely at all, and it happened in her case anyway.
2 ways it coulda worked out that way: she was so bright she was allowed to skip a grade.
Second way: for many years in Queensland, if a child was born before the First of March they could start Grade 1 when they were 4.
Not 100% sure, but Numbers may have said he was in that group.
The deceased woman was born on 3rd February 1971, so if that rule was in operation in South Australia in 1975 she could have started then.
But whatever the situation, she and Porter both finished High School at the end of 1987.
Wayne Goss was another one, because he was born 26/2/1951, he was able to start at 4
in 1956 and finish in 1967, while he was still 16.
It’s quiet here tonight.
Too quiet.
I guess everyone is marching at Mardi Gras.
Funky Model A Banjo
I guess everyone is marching at Mardi Gras.
Yeah, na. Safely in the Upper Hunter… But yeah still lurking in a non derogatory way…
Upper Hunter is gorgeous. Scone, Musswellbrook.
Any sequins and ostrich feathers in attendance?
Chilling with my wife a Woodstock can and watching Despicable me 2.
Life is good.
They went to school in different States so where did she go to uni?
Could be a lot better if you pissed of the Woodstock and got into a cheeky rosé.
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I had a student tell me I reminded her of Gru.
Cheeky bint.
“I guess everyone is marching at Mardi Gras.”
No parade….they’re having a big party at the SCG….I am at home and I can hear it. Apparently there was a protest march on Oxford Street.
I’m tasting some D’Arenberg Coppermine Road I got as a bargain. Not bad. May need to taste more
That is the point.
She was from Adelaide.
He was from Perth.
But it is being presented as if they moved in the same circles for years.
Never liked it. Shameful.
Mazda CX30 Touring or Subaru XV 2.0i Premium
A great drink for when you a menstruating.
…in the bath.
Sorry, can’t take you seriously with the Miata in the background. If you must celebrate the Mardi Gras, please just use a Gay Pride flag 🏳️🌈 as a backdrop.
Also, get a haircut and stop scratching your arse whilst standing almost on top of the camera.
🤣
The institutions in his country prevented him.
Given half a chance he would have had no compunction.
Remember, this is the presidential candidate who encouraged his supporters to chant “lock her up”.
These were the same supporters who were chanting “kill Nancy”and “hang Pence” when they stormed the Capitol.
Sounds like he is going for the art-house market.
Yes. Thick legs, very dark and meaty 🙂
Whats that?
you are so full of shit
Smack yourself in the forehead with a can.
I don’t care if it is full or empty.
Bruce, when I was thinking about how to describe the process of the attraction and then the destruction of the individual I was thinking exactly that, but with a barb attachment!
Specifically, the scene in Finding Nemo when Marlin and Dory end up in the deep, deep ocean after chasing the dentist’s face mask into the deep.
make sure you catch it on video
I did indeed start school at 4, but that was because I would follow my parents to the school where they were principal and assistant teacher. The woman employed to care for me couldn’t keep me at home which was right next door to the school.
Besides, I could read at age three and was bored stiff at home.
Dad said “stuff it” and put me on the roll.
Things were a bit more laid back in those days.
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Can’t do that.
How is the viewer to know I’m thinking?
“The institutions in his country prevented him.
Given half a chance he would have had no compunction.”
Isn’t it past your bedtime racist?
Gru is my hero.
Although El Macho is strangely alluring.
By the way racist…has your daughter returned from the UK yet or are you waiting for the government to pick up the tab?
What’s going on with the ABC?
Someone’s missed reading their latest woke direction and put on some classic white supremacy stuff – they’re televising the ballet.
Might be the mask.
Sad that your mum didn’t want to spend any time with you.
That’s too bad.
at 4yo
on a scooter?
lol, you truly are the bullshitter’s bullshitter
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Faaaaaaaaaaark.
The product of a marriage between two educators and then a teacher himself.
You never had a chance you poor sod.
Ed Case says:
March 6, 2021 at 8:07 pm
***She turned sixteen at the start of 87. Year twelve at sixteen, unlikely.***
Not unlikely at all, and it happened in her case anyway.
Where was it said she was at university?
Just flicking through the channels.
Mardi Gras … nup.
Space Invaders … more of the same.
Oh God!
More family narratives.
The thing about contemporaneous notes is that have to be err, contemporaneous.
“The woman employed to care for me couldn’t keep me at home which was right next door to the school.”
I do hope your parents adequately remunerated the poor woman? Domestic labour isn’t very “socialist”.
I’m preloading for the after party.
Could read at age three!
Fucking LOL…such a good reader it bored him so he had to what, literally go backwards to be entertained!?
What confabulatin’ fuckstick.
Bespoke, I’m pleased you didn’t say that she’s wrapped! h/t slow cooker 😀
Same same
Numbers missed his mum so much he’d constantly run away from home and the ‘woman’ who was ’employed’ to mind him, to the school next door where his mum and dad both worked, just to get a glimpse of his dear mum….
What did he see? That his mum thought it was more important spending time with other people’s children than spending it with tiny toddler him. Really hard for a 3 or 4 year old to understand that.
That’s a really fuckin sad story man, holy shit, I’m sorry for you numbers, truly.
Riiight.
Pre-loading what exactly.
I ordered Thai food and cracked another beer
The revolution will be fed.
And the woman tasked with minding him left the door open.
“And the woman tasked with minding him left the door open.”
LOL.
And Biden’s fit to be Prez, too, I’ll bet!?
*Half the US electorate disagree.
A house next door to the school used to come with the Principals job in Qld.
Older schools sometimes had large houses for the principal, ones built from the fifties on were fairly ordinary.
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You’re not wrong.
Seriously, the most screwed up kids I have had to teach are the children with mothers as teachers.
Another reason I never touched a colleague with a ten foot pole.
That and the fact that most of them were horrible.
Might be why his mum gave his shoes away. Force him to stay home, or face walking across the bindi-eye.
Me too BBS 👍 slight correction though it was an air cooker I got her for mothers day.
Seriously not having a go at the man.
Two principals I knew had children attempt suicide.
One succeeded.
Two parents as teachers would suck the big one.
An it happens quite a bit because of work romances.
The blue pills wore off?
Will remember that (hopefully) for next time! 😁
There is a poll doing the rounds on Facebook asking if people would be prepared to carry a vaccine card around with them. It’s amazing how many people are fully on board with this. I suspect the Government will use the poll to put in place the next step in their quest for totalitarianism.
How do you cook air?
And why?
Indeed BBS I would do the same. 😁
Ask the cool kidz.
Friend of mine, way back when, practiced law. He said the bitterest divorces were between schoolteachers….
Yeah nah. No it’s not.
Ponderable Points 🐻
One
Two
I’ll carry a vaccine card. It’s the vaccine I’m worried about.
🐹
One
Two
Three
Oz Rock Cafe in Sydney opened in 1988 TP says. Got a date for that as this event was supposed to have occurred in mid January.
How much do you reckon a black market card would be worth?
Dr. Seuss
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Five
Six
Oh TP are you confirming the bizarre claim that someone would record date of menstruation and not a hint about an horrific attack.
Seems likely.
Oh.
Running out of Rock places.
Bombay Rock in Sydney Road Brunswick opened in 1977, if that helps.
Is there any truth to the rumour “ last tango in Paris” was based on Bob and his prostatot?
Obviously they had to raise the actresses age and cut out the really sick stuff.
In my Dad’s area of expertise, whenever a work file was for a school teacher, on the front cover was written – and this was not done by him or his office – but by his client – AFST – another f…ing school teacher.
Slip over to his blog and see if you can get that question past the moderator.
The woman couldn’t keep a four year old at home.
Fuck me dead Numbers. You can spin some bullshit.
LOL. Any tips?
There is a photo online of the Oz Rock Cafe with a date of 12 Oct 1988 from the Sydney City Engineer’s office.
Some sleuth will be able to find the grand opening date from a paper or magazine.
Oh.
Running out of Rock places.
Bombay Rock in Sydney Road Brunswick opened in 1977, if that helps.
Ayers Rock was still open around then, I believe…
#Chortle
Don’t worry about divorce.
Have you seen a group of teachers try to split a restaurant bill?
Yeah. Avoid the truth.
He posted something here on the Cat, but wouldn’t allow it to posted on his own blog.
You taught yourself to read, did you, BBS?
As Kev’s blog says “If you can read this, thank a teacher.
If you can read it in English, thank a soldier”.
My dad was an airman and a teacher.
I was a soldier and a teacher.
You have a great deal to thank us for and whatever teacher made you literate.
Pull your head in.
Speaking of Mardi Gras, the ABC has this really weird story up about a couple of washed up female ‘pro’ surfers.
I’m not going to say too much about it, other than quote this part which is seedy as fuck – note that Jodie is six years older than the at the time, young impressionable Pauline – the ABC describes Pauline as Jodie’s ‘protegee‘.
Hmmmhmmmmmmmm.
Oh and,
Sounds like it.
So if “I could read at age three and was bored stiff at home”, which teachers do I have to thank?
Chuckle. I’m still recovering from being “schooled” about Rio’s local area geology, Sydney’s sewer system and the voyage of the Beagle, amongst other things. December 2019.
Nothing like being on tour with a pedagogue. For five weeks. 😂
“I was a soldier and a teacher.”
No. You were a coward.
I have, indeed. Not a pretty sight.
My wife and I are/were both teachers. Even worked together for some 20 years.
We have two daughters — both very balanced and happy.
#1: Microbiologist/pharmacologist/toxicologist-turned-secondary science teacher.
#2: Senior associate in Australia’s leading law firm.
Only thing that ever bugged them was when we would have dinner table conversations about grammar rather than movie/TV/music celebrities … 😀
Why, 180?
Did you save us from Communism?
I thought you didn’t subscribe to the domino theory?
I taught my little sister to read. Dr Seuss. Endlessly.
It ‘s sad that some of his wonderful books have been withdrawn due to Woke.
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Yes Bruce, but how careerist were you both?
Fuck off, 180.
You do know what “ostensibly” means, don’t you?
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2014/01/setting-the-record-straight-on-1735099-bob-whittaker-5-platoon-b-company-7rar-svn-1970.html
Did you save us from Communism?
Only theirs. At the time, Collaborator Bob felt it was ruining the brand…
Minions song – i Swear – Despicable Me 2
😎
‘I can count though – so was given a sheep-counter to count paces for navigation in Vietnam.’
Counting.
Paces.
Is.
Not.
Navigation.
Oh. Were you in Vietnam?
Parents generally teach reading.
Teachers don’t have the time to do it effectively.
If it was left to teachers to do it almost no one would be able to read.
only the stupid need to be taught
fucking mong-herder
Thanks mum!
Didn’t your mum teach your to rea…oh, right. Ouch.
‘that was because I would follow my parents to the school where they were principal and assistant teacher.’
Good Lord. Are you saying there was a patriarchy-sponsored and condoned power imbalance? Have you tipped off the Chronicle about this?
‘The woman employed to care for me’
Because your parents were capitalists, creating wealth through unfair exchanges.
‘couldn’t keep me at home’
You mean ‘wouldn’t’.
‘which was right next door to the school.’
Which day was No Shoes Day?
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Only you didn’t do much fighting did you Numbers.
You fucked off to the Q Store and movie theatre.
I’ve been waiting for you lot to come up with the answer:
The word is “Fanny struck.”
And no, that’s not the way it’s spelled…
Dot says:
March 6, 2021 at 8:38 pm
A diary by definition is just that, describing the daily happenings at the end of the day.
Max next day but by then it is no longer reliable, clouded by regrets or booze or whatever.
Even when the claim is so incredulous that it is either false or intentionally mischievous, or worse, truly delusional?
…and if the misconduct is NOT illegal?
The police need to get involved…if we had Mal Trumble’s boink ban…and charge government MPs with what, exactly? Consensual sex between adults in the top 1% of the population? For fuck’s sake this country is terminally and massively mentally retarded.
This woman is an empty suit. What a turkey, how on earth was she ever a “successful high powered lawyer”? As for me thinking she was a decent cabinet Minister or potential PM, I made a huge error, please remind me constantly of my error.
Check your privilege Bob
yep, and try not to shoot a hole in your own argument
but nobody posts here anymore.
I stopped posting because of your negativity. You ruin this blog and were doing the same to mine. I had trouble banning you because of my belief in free speech but in the end had to just stop and have a break. I will post again and you will simply be banned like you should be on every rational, reasonable blog on the web.
An IQ test on anyone in a position of power, doctors, public service, teaching, police, military, juries or immigrants would solve many problems at low cost.
I’d aim for 2 standard deviations above the mean but would settle for 1.
180,
During my career, I’ve been fortunate to have unfettered access to the US SIPRNet, and I thought I’d use to opportunity to dig into some of the classified Vietnam archives.
It turns out that late in 1969, the Americans started trialling a piece of high tech equipment which could identify and pinpoint Communists through the jungle canopy and up to a range of 50km. ‘Twas accurate to about 100m. Unfortunately, it couldn’t identify the uniform said communists were wearing (or anything else about them), just that they were communists at heart. They used it to direct fire missions and bombing sorties.
I’ve just put two and two together and now understand why you had so many close calls with American indirect fire and air attack. I believe that a series of Top Secret briefings about the system eventually filtered done to company level by mid 1970. I suspect this is the reason your constant whinges and cowardly attempts to be placed in the rear with the gear were eventually successful. Your Company Commander realised that your continued presence posed an unacceptable risk to all those around you, when outside a designed friendly area.
The rise of Is1am1c Extremism (and the fall of the Wall) has rendered this revolutionary piece of tech almost obsolete in today’s conflicts…for now.
I hope this (classified) information fills in one of missing pieces in you jigsaw. Perhaps you could include this information in any further editions of Jellybeans in the Jungle. It’s a fascinating find, and in strict keeping with the strict “conviction that it would be an accurate account of the reality” that your memoir represents.
You should thank me; I’m risking imprisonment by telling you this.
No, we were never under any threat from Communism.
But I probably saved some other poor bugger from wasting two years of his life to keep the Coalition in power.
And on RTA I became active And in my own small way contributed to Whitlam’s election, which made a profound difference to the quality of the lives of vulnerable Australians for decades.
Founding a special school in Townsville financed by Whitlam money made it worthwhile.
I’ll always be proud of that.
That’s the last time I scratch my arse and admit I don’t know what I’m doing in a video.
Already lost one subscriber.
People don’t want honesty or self deprecation.
They want bullshit and the pretence of expertise and control.
Well I don’t roll that way. Like most people I’m making it up as I go along and it usually turns out OK with a few fuck ups along the way.
‘I’ll always be proud of that.’
Good, because nobody else is.
Oh Jesus. They were sabotaging the diggers when Stalin was allied with Hitler.
Shut the fuck up you decrepit, old, mass murderer supporting cockhead.
GWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
‘made a profound difference to the quality of the lives of vulnerable Australians for decades.’
You’re not supposed to be proud of making a negative difference in people’s lives.
What are they? Flamin’ pot plants?*
*Ladyboy Bob fake story, heavily influenced by Maurie Fields.
Isn’t the 180 the shit car that Mitsubishi made in SA? Same thing I spose
From the Courier Mail. Candice is a good looking black female.
“Candice Wiggins was a college basketball star, the third pick of the 2008 WNBA draft and a 2011 champion. And at the mountaintop of her basketball career, her sexuality marred the moment.
There is a “very, very harmful” culture running throughout the WNBA, she says, which saw her get bullied during her eight-year career because she is heterosexual.
Wiggins, who last played in the league in 2015, said she retired prematurely to leave a league that she estimated — wildly — is 98 per cent lesbian, and which is played in such isolation that it weighs on the people on the court.
“It wasn’t like my dreams came true in the WNBA. It was quite the opposite,” Wiggins said in an extensive San Diego Tribune story published Monday.
“I wanted to play two more seasons of WNBA, but the experience didn’t lend itself to my mental state. It was a depressing state in the WNBA. It’s not watched. Our value is diminished. It can be quite hard. I didn’t like the culture inside the WNBA, and without revealing too much, it was toxic for me. … My spirit was being broken.”
The 30-year-old couldn’t take it anymore — being harassed for being straight and fighting for attention in a league that is starved”.
Founding has a different connotation to being ordered to do something. Very dishonest to claim otherwise.
1735099
Serious question: What efforts have you made to manage the trauma you experienced fifty years ago, and give yourself the best opportunity for personal growth?
How much better off would we all be RIGHT NOW if the Chief Medical Officers had got in front of the cameras, without those spasticated hand signallers, scratched their arses slowly and ponderously and admitted “We don’t actually know what the fuck’s going on with this thing, but all the masks have disappeared back to China and the CCP reckon it’s bad, but they’re a bunch of lying shits, so who the hell knows”?
Mr Post Hoc, the history professor
I’ll let you in on a secret.
It really wasn’t Whitlam’s money.
It was money from “the ignoramuses who voted Coalition from 1960 until 1972”.
Phuc Dat in history
Someone has a sense of humour.
So why should I thank you then; today, ANZAC day, or any other day for that matter?
My wife tells me that “competence porn” is now a thing.
In other words … clueless bozos have now become so deeply entrenched and universal wherever you look, that simply watching someone capable of executing a basic task accurately and professionally is regarded as almost superhuman. If you want to be a video legend, avoid all the angst, avoid the emotion … all you have to do is remain efficient and competent at all times.
But nooooooooo.
They HAD to pretend to be in control and know what to do.
It’s what women and children expect of people in power.
moar cleavage
…get the old trackie daks
Much better.
Arkdacious, arksome post.
No, we were never under any threat from Communism.
IMO whoever wrote this, absolute BS.
I recently watched a bunch of 3 scientists try to cut out some holes through coolroom panel (styrofoam sandwiched with sheet metal) using a dremel.
They were awestruck when I broke out the tin snips.
Clearly, we are now ruled by the commies.
Be careful what you say.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
FMD.
I pop in for a look at the Cat and that monomaniacal old goat is either still pissing and moaning about Vietnam from fifty years ago or skiting about how much holier than thou he is and forever racing to defend the downtrodden.
The whining old fool used to go to bed about 6.00pm and some entertaining commentary could resume after that but now it is here all bloody day and night.
Does it ever fucking end?
This blog is fucked beyond repair while that obsessed turd is tolerated.
Agree. He’s killed it, what a bastard.
You shouldn’t.
I’ve had quite a few people utter the “Thank you for you service” cliche over the last few years.
It’s about as meaningful as the “Have a nice day” spiel from every second retail worker.
I usually respond with “I’m off to murder my grandmother”.
In the instance of the first cliche, if they’re of an age not to have voted in 1969, I usually say “Thanks – but you have nothing to thank me for”.
If they are old enough to have voted in 1969, I ask if they voted Coalition.
If the answer is “yes”, I remind them that they have the blood of about 500 Australians on their hands.
That usually puts an end to the conversation.
Anyone supporting communists or wilfully insisting there was no communist threat when they have been comprehensively shown otherwise has the blood of thousands of Australians and the blood of millions of Vietnamese on their hands.
Arky?
‘I ask if they voted Coalition.
If the answer is “yes”, I remind them that they have the blood of about 500 Australians on their hands.’
If you weren’t punched in the face as soon as you said that, you should have been*.
*NADT.
Can’t be any worse than a group of ski instructors who pass the bill and a calculator/phone around the table, adding up only exactly what they themselves ate and drank, with Mr and Mrs OSC at the end of the line – and responsible for the tip.
Idiots.
You were a cowardly jack prick.
By christ you’re a weirdo. You don’t do this of course, you fantasise about being a literal autist.
You fucking idiot.
How dare you impune Sinc like that
just when you thought there wasn’t enough glitter …
More junk for the shit_that_never_happened file;
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So there is no market for incompetence porn?
Someone tripping over stuff, gashing his head open, skinning his knuckles, swearing, re-doing things ten times before finally coming up with something half adequate, looking off into the distance bewildered and uncertain?
1735099.
You may have missed the following:
Serious question: What efforts have you made to manage the trauma you experienced fifty years ago, and give yourself the best opportunity for personal growth?
Kiwis
Once again 1735099 demonstrates his concern is paper thin.
What efforts have you made to stop beating your wife?
Anyone supporting communists or wilfully insisting there was no communist threat when they have been comprehensively shown otherwise has the blood of thousands of Australians and the blood of millions of Vietnamese on their hands.
Agree and Thais, Malays etc.
My dad served in Malaysia and Vietnam. I have seen the remnant bomb shelters in Eastern Thailand because of communism. I am old enough to have seen the fall of the Berlin Wall, I remember the MAD Cold War. It is a failed ideology, let it go!
Have you seen some of the stuff coming out of the Gold Coast? So I’m told.
‘I’ve had quite a few people utter the “Thank you for you service”’
Again, you’re twisting the words of others.
What I actually said was ‘Thank you for servicing ladyboys in SE Asia fifty years ago.’
C’mon NamBob, surely meeting you miserable old fuck is enough.
Depends if you just want a hole … or if you expect someone will take a look and demand a nice good-looking hole. Long ago I bought a slightly upmarket hole saw, that is the size to match those common plastic desk fittings (enough to put a power plug through plus a few extra cables) and over the years I’ve been surprised how many things that has punched through to the other side of. Goes through mild steel sheet with a squirt of oil, a gentle push and a lot of noise.
Dremel can help tidy things up, always buy the tungsten carbide cutting bit though.
Plastic fittings help you cover things up, and that’s also fine.
1735099 says:
March 6, 2021 at 10:25 pm
What efforts have you made to manage the trauma you experienced fifty years ago?
What efforts have you made to stop beating your wife?
And the wind suddenly changes direction. Got it.
Arky.
It’s already been made.
Called “ ow my balls”
Running out of good viewing.
Homeland has been reasonable viewing for a while, but series 7 seems to be going very silly.
Tried the movie Dear Comrades, all about the USSR in the 1960s, but it was as dreary as the USSR in the 1960s, so gave it up.
Mrs TE thinks she has an ability to somehow just fasten onto a good flick, so we started A Fortunate Man, which seems to be the fictional story of a Danish bloke who wanted to harness the tides and the wind back in the late 1800s. I gave it up when he was denouncing coal – as if – but as it’s a bit of a bodice-ripper Mrs TE is sticking with it.
I have retired to the other side of the house with a French red, and John Winton’s The Fighting Temeraire. Winton, who I once had the good fortune to meet in Wales, is perhaps the finest chronicler of modern navies who ever wrote, as good as CS Forester or Patrick O’Brian.
If they are old enough to have voted in 1969, I ask if they voted Coalition.
If the answer is “yes”, I remind them that they have the blood of about 500 Australians on their hands.
That usually puts an end to the conversation.
Snap, KD!
I would have asked the Collaborator if he still has his original teeth. The answer would indicate the Confabulator’s interactees have a truly creditable degree of self control.
If not, the Collaborator’s dentist must be a very, very rich man…
Absolutely.
But it has never been a threat to this country.
The real threat is the paranoia created by the fear of Communism, which has cost this country blood and treasure, and got the USA involved in Vietnam in the first place, at a crucial time when they should have been facilitating the end of colonialism in SE Asia, rather than perpetuating it.
This led to the debacle which killed millions of Vietnamese, 57000 Americans, 500 Australians, and without which the circumstances that created the killing fields would never have eventuated.
That particular paranoia has much to answer for.
Define competence porn.
I hope it doesn’t describe some dude with the latest gadget which does 90% of the skill for him.
Preferably, as Matrix said, it’s some dude who can skilfully do something with just the bare essentials.
There is … but the supply is saturated and you are up against the best-of-breed at both the state and federal levels.
That was premeditated by the Viet Minh before the Vietnam War.
They literally had a quota on how many land owners to murder.
Given Wangs Catholicism ( claimed) I wonder if his parish priest has passed on his confession about his overseas sex tourism with exploited young ladies.
‘I remind them that they have the blood of about 500 Australians on their hands.’
That reminds me, Rex.
Ladyboy Bob – tell us again why you didn’t go to Johno’s battalion reunion? To take up his offer of the one-on-one research you don’t have?
What was it again you wanted? A ‘guarantee of my safety’ is what you asked for. Those words.
I understand why now.
The executions, the purges and the mass graves began days after the declaration of independence in Hanoi, in 1945.
Is Wang still going on about seizing a prostatots means of reproduction?
actually after the dremel they tried a 150mm hole saw and flogged out the Makita
need a fair dinkum wrist-breaker for a saw like that
That particular paranoia has much to answer for.
What? The paranoia responsible this week for locking Washington DC down tighter than a fish’s arsehole on the basis of an Internet rumour.
120 million dead and counting, Collaborator Bob. But for your unwilling efforts, it could be far more.
So yes, Collaborator Bob. The paranoia of you and your co-ideologists has much to answer for…
That reminds me, Rex.
Ladyboy Bob – tell us again why you didn’t go to Johno’s battalion reunion? To take up his offer of the one-on-one research you don’t have?
What was it again you wanted? A ‘guarantee of my safety’ is what you asked for. Those words.
I understand why now.
Yes indeed…
Is Wang still going on about seizing a prostatots means of reproduction?
A womb not Servicing the State is a womb wasted!
– Coming soon, from a State Family Planning Clinic near you…
#AllHailOceania
#DeathToEurasia
#DeathToEastAsia
500 you say?
didn’t the covid kill more than that ?
and didn’t you say the covid was a dire emergency?
have you thought this argument through or are you just shooting from the tent again?
Has he gone?
Is it safe to post now?
Bob, wow there are none so blind who they can’t see. Do you really think they would have stopped at Thailand, Malaysia or even Indonesia? Yup the domino theory was eminently plausible. Declassified documents from the fall of the USSR pretty well much back the US position being a deterrent to further follies despite their withdrawal from South Vietnam.
Disclaimer, I have traveled and worked in some of these countries.
Mate take a trip to Sydney especially Cabramatta or as my dad used to quip Vietnamatta. My mates Thai wife even calls it “little Viet town” but I digress, you will still see the gold flag with the 3 red stripes of the Republic of South Vietnam flying in many places. Ask them about the threat…
Some are better than others … but I bet they forgot to lubricate the cut.
Yeah, obviously when it gets close to breaking through, then it’s gonna kick a bit … all in the shoulder action and a bit of nuance at the last moment.
Outstanding result in WA’s women’s footy today.
East Fremantle beat Subiaco, edge of the seat margin.
Behold the magnificent final score!
Numbers Bob fell hook, line and sinker for the Party line of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. What’s been written in the past twenty years with access to the North Vietnamese archives reveal just how completely he did fall for the Party line, so it must be rather traumatic to have to come to terms with that.
There’s a good case being mounted that that whole war was fought simply to justify the imposition of a Stalinist police State on North Vietnam.
you do sound like a fella that’s drilled a few.
I was only trying to be jokey about your point.
agree that competence has been underrated of late.
we are in the hands of dilettantes right now
The War Years
This individual does not actually believe what he claims to, including the traumas he has convinced himself he lived through. He has cut and pasted them into his identity like an old-fashioned scrapbook, from a variety of sources.
Arky.
Have you seen The Undoing?
Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant. Only six episodes but a classic whodunnit i.e. we changed our No 1 suspect after every episode.
notafan, your wrongology has become quite the bad habit.
I said it’s likely they have confused the Hard Rock with the Oz Rock Café when they were there in 1988. You can check if you like but I’m pretty sure the Oz Rock Café opened in 1971 and was still open well past the Bicentenary.
I woke from an afternoon nap and heard Cambodia being bombed…
You wrote and self published that horse shit. You are a fabulist of the first order.
You are the last person on earth entitled to appropriate the term ‘useful idiot’
You manage to damage the reputation of everyone that takes you at face value.
Mark Dapin
Your PhD Supervisor
Sadly now your own brother.
You’re not a useful idiot. You’re just an idiot.
No. To the best of my knowledge, this is not true.
From what I found on the internet earlier today:
Old mate was getting the business off the ground in 1986, it was open around late 1988 (see Sydney Council engineer documentation), he sold to Lady Fairfax in 1992 and he managed it until 1994.
More popcorn, anyone? Should be a good night on the Cat?
I celebrate women’s footy. I celebrate every game that is played without me being there. That looks a particularly good one to celebrate.
Actually, I think Daniel Andrews is up to 822 at last count.
1) Like you, numbers, I mastered reading before I went to school.
2) I don’t need you to insist I thank my teachers. I’ll decide which teachers warrant special mention and which ones were, like you, the product of the Whitlamisation of our teaching colleges.
Thank goodness, my parents were interested in my education and well-being. If I had to rely solely on the education system of my yoof I’d be a raving looney lefty because some of the teacher I had.
And btw, if you’re so interested in children learning to read, and possibly also in the mastery of the other two “Rs”, because you were once a teacher, perhaps you could consider criticising the current system and the teaching union. Both of which seem only interested in environmentalism, sexism, homophobia and, coming-soon-to-a-school-near-you, the evil of white privilege, rather than teaching students to read.
To Bruce: sorry to include you in this comment, but I didn’t want you think that a subsequent comment regarding your and your wife’s teaching careers, or the way your children have turned out, would be only of secondary interest to me.
From what you’ve said about their adult lives as well as the way you comport yourself, here, I think you’d fall well within that group of teachers I was pleased to have teach me.
Yes. It was very good!
Race 3 at the Gloucester Park trots tonight was delayed. A drunk sheila drove onto the track followed by two divvy vans.
Sat’dy nite, and we’re at home. Hairy watching sport, and me looking at ‘Escape to the Country’ on free to air. Watchable, and lovely countryside. Interesting to see what retirees are looking for these days. For some of them, a lot of work looking after acreage and large gardens. The Mystery House seems to be winning in two cases out of three. One couple did a sensible thing. Saw Devonshire cottage, then ugly architect designed modern house, and Mystery House was part of an old psychiatric institution in 60 acres of beautiful grounds. I thought, nup, but then like them became hooked. They had a two story part of the building with own entrance and own sitting garden area at the back, a garage, and the rooms were just beautifully proportioned, high ceilings and with very glam floor to ceiling windows. Beautiful views all round. I would have wanted to live there too. Cost was 450 British pounds, less than $1 million Australian. Easy living. A good choice for a couple who wanted to travel and enjoy doing things. Only issue was management fees and what were the other residents like.
Well, sorry to bother an exciting night of Vietnam and the education of its most famous soldier with tedious house stuff, but just sayin’ that some interesting stuff can still be seen. This last show showed Bamburgh Castle (home of Uhtred! in the Last Kingdom). We’ve been there some years ago and it was good to see it again. This show now makes a feature of bringing history and local industries into it, to keep things moving.
No doubt JC can come in soon with some international real estate pron.
I enjoy that too. Castles in France etc.
Before all this we watched Fox news from the US. Lots of takes of how Joe Biden is deteriorating rapidly, especially compared to his previous self in 2013 to 2016. Republicans in the Senate are starting to get upset about the influx of ‘child migrants’ and slinging off at Biden re this. About time.
It did a little shark-jump right at the end, but.
Yes, have seen The Undoing, Jupes.
Pretty good we thought, even though Mrs TE has a set against Nicole Kidman, aka The Stick Insect.
15 Days on Foxtel sounds reasonable, so might have a go there.
Her Indoors sheered off Breaking Bad when the body fell through the bath. I kept going, and have suggested watching it again. Also might give The Tudors another go.
Very few medieval dramas around worth watching. Someone should do a decent series of the Wars of the Roses. Have been researching it for the last 10 years, and finally have a book coming out in Britain in a month about the realities of combat in such times. Lotsa drama there to be had. Game of Thrones is said to be based on it, but features dragons apparently, so shall leave it there.
Doing some work for the UK publishers with “blog sites” and the like for the new book. Tuned into an episode of Vikings for a critique, only to see a blonde woman without a helmet on exhorting more violence out of the boys. Turned off rapidly.
Lame pics.
Well said! My High school history teacher was a veteran of the United States Marine Corps during the Pacific war. You did not EVER, but EVER, fvck about in history classes, but the love of history he instilled in one of his students has lasted nearly fifty years…
I have your medieval combat book on order, Top Ender.
Thanks Jupes, I’ll give it a go.
Dunno what to recommend TE, depends what he’s subscribed to.
Colditz is on Youtube (fictional series) (season 1 & season 2)
Compelling series.
Race 3 at the Gloucester Park trots tonight was delayed. A drunk sheila drove onto the track followed by two divvy vans.
How was the sideline book?
Odds on tasering? Shooting? Spectacular accident?
I suppose you’ve seen The Last Kingdom series, TE. Saxon times, and played for effect, but still some good historical themes and lotsa drama but also some bodice ripping. Heaps of choreographed fighting and weaponry for your delectation.
I like it, find it escapist, but my girlfriends all think it is too cruel and bloodthirsty. 🙂
Mobile start or standing start?
There is what looks like (in the ads) a good series on the Yom Kippur war on Foxtel starting on Tuesday I believe.
Unfortunately I will have to upgrade to watch it.
Mmm…should have mentioned said blonde woman was actually “a warrior” and carrying a small battleaxe. Sure.
Last night went to an “International Womens’ Day” function on the promise of free booze and tucker. Price to be paid was interminable prosing from various speech makers on how we need more ladies doing everything etc.
Best moment was when one lady speaker argued for more lady firefighters. Argued arguments about cannot carry the gear were negated now the gear is lighter.
No it isn’t negated. A chief reason for needing beefy bloke firefighters is to be able to drag prone human out of danger. 80 kg lady dragging 120 kg bloke doesn’t work. Explosive upper body strength ability of males is a major asset.
Had to go outside at that point else likely to explode. Only to find about 20 people there saying they’d had enough of that thank you!
As do I, Top Ender.
From Mark A’s lame pics, above:
We are living in a generation that would unplug your life support, just to charge their cellphone.
What was she paying?
We used to go to the Cross regularly when in the Army in Sydney. (School of Arty, North Head. Then 8/12 Mdm Regt, Holsworthy) The Oz Rock was definitely open in January 1988 because I was there.
Why else would you be there?
Mark A, I really enjoy “Lame pics”. Thank you and please keep going.
Would it be possible to add more names for the ladies of fame who often appear? I see quite a few are movie actresses or models or whatever, and think it would increase the interest quotient if we knew who they were – or are.
The Last Kingdom series is on Netflix. So is The Queens Gambit series, also the movie ‘The Dig’, (my review of this is in this month’s Quadrant), also The Highwayman is worth a look.
Always something to watch if you just want to blob out.
But those new sorts of mens’ underpants ads are far too frequent. There are about four different companies making almost exactly the same thing, all advertising in pretty much the same way, mostly fat blokes trying to keep everything under control.
It’s not eye candy for the girls. Could be though with some sleeker well-packaged guys.
Oops. Getting rude. I will soon be mistaken for a Tasmania Senator.
Better get to bed.
God bless that unruly Sandgroper.
Keeping it real.
AOTY material.
Lame Pics just the right thing for this time of nite, Mark. Thanx for them.
Love lame pics also, especially the flowers as well as the laughs
You nearly lost me too with that one, but for a different reason.
Does Legolas know that you stole his boots?
Were all the panels on her Commodore the same colour?
Stuff now on about the area we did a safari in two years ago; huge big crater full of animals. Amazing. Presenter is a silly gigling girl, a lot of fun, just like a friend of mine is.
Oh dear, Lizzie.
Those “Step One” underdungers are selling like hotcakes.
Somebody finally realised the meat and two veges need to cease and desist from freestyling, invented these things and are reaping a fortune.
The ads are great IMO, your sleek and well toned blokes are few and far between in the real world. 🙂
Resort we stayed in was on top of the crater edge, and it was misty and very cold.
Had to turn the heaters on. View when the mist cleared was outstanding.
Oh, they are showing it now, the Ngora Ngora Crater Lodge.
Now they’ve moved on to the wildflowers in WA, also in The Grampians.
Definitely bedtime.
In many jobs, not just firefighting.
I am guessing this is Valley of Tears. Named because of how many dead tanks in the valley. When the Syrians seriously outnumbered the Israelis. Some good clips involving Centurions on Youtube.
Jupes says:
March 6, 2021 at 11:45 pm
There is what looks like (in the ads) a good series on the Yom Kippur war on Foxtel starting on Tuesday I believe.
Unfortunately I will have to upgrade to watch it.
‘He has cut and pasted them into his identity like an old-fashioned scrapbook, from a variety of sources.’
Yes he has.
Seasons One through Four of M.A.S.H. spring to mind.
TE:
‘Last night went to an “International Womens’ Day” function on the promise of free booze and tucker.’
Haha. Sucker. Dodged that one.
I know one of the frumpy little things that did some of the speaking about her ‘domestic violence and homelessness journey’.
Some other ladeees I know, who also didn’t attend, have knowledge of this ‘journey’ and have remarked before that 95% of it is her own doing, and the other 5% is bullshit.
That woman was playing up like a secondhand lawnmower for years.
Gave all the right vibes to the blokes when she was 10 – no, 15 kgs lighter.
‘the Ngora Ngora Crater Lodge.’
Are we still talking about men’s jocks?
How whales defy the cancer odds: Good genes
Down pub tonight & saw bits of mardi gras on television & do feel they have jumped the shark. Had no volume, but they had indig dude in white corset with opera gloves ensemble reading welcome to country & other folk playing the dig. SBS was showing it live, but the talent was pretty average. Also lot of girls twerking & half empty stadium. This the model for society we need.
Ain’t it so.
‘He has cut and pasted them into his identity like an old-fashioned scrapbook, from a variety of sources.’
In it’s dreams it’s Hawkeye.
Reality, Frank Burns.
Although Richard Hooker’s original work was fiction. Some credit must be paid to to his invented character Frank. As craven as he was. In seasons One through four he was potting the rather fragrant Loretta Swit.
Rooting Thai and Vietnamese prostitutes and then complaining about being deceived by low light and make up, in memoirs, written forty years later…
Strikes me as precisely as something Frank Burns would do.
Well called.
Oh you….. Guys! 😡
Week In Pictures contains a timeless warning.
I have just read that ScoMo refused to visit WA ahead of the state election, apparently over policy differences with the state liberals.
Is he happy with Liberals been wiped out in the state parliament and upper house made irrelevant?
180 last night, less than 1 hour apart.
59 minutes seems his retention limit.
For the second time in the history of this blog, he and I agree.
BorisG says:
March 7, 2021 at 4:30 am
He should be, I am.
The sooner the current mob disappears the better.
Politics never operates in a vacuum or with one party unless the system goes totalitarian.
Some other would be politicians will emerge to restaff the party.
Question only is, what kind of people will replace them.😎
ABC New Radio this morning:
1. Joy to the world, the COVID Relief Bill has passed in the US Senate 50/49.
No mention of the Porkapalooza nature of the 1.9 Trillion.
2. Gay-Lezzo Marxi Gras.
3. Christian Porter’s absense from parliament over historical rape allegations and likely impacts on timing of consideration of amendments to IR legislation.
Sorry, Newzzzz Radio.
On technical videos and such, I agree with Tel’s missus about the “competence porn”.
And then there’s confessions about competence. 😀
7 am Where’s spud, must be at mass confessing to child prostitution.
Numberz is a stain on Sinclair’s history of forbearance.
The future
It’s true.
Thanks Tom.
Hero, Sinc had a post a few years back about military service. Spud appeared. Some of us thanked him.
Is it possible to withdraw my horrid cliché? Or is it permanently trapped in the carbonite of the National Archives?
Calli,
Given that he was only “ostensibly fighting for the likes of you”, you can always claim you you were only “ostensibly” thanking him for his service.
When you use a graph comparison but don’t quite get the result you intended .. most folk would DELETE and try again but not this MENSA candidate …. LOL!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Evua7lvVIAMaTNj?format=jpg&name=medium
This is hilarious.
The clerk keeps kicking entitled stroppy males off Zoom.
Should be more of it.
So you are saying Numbers that stroppy males should be kicked off communal media for obnoxious behaviour? Is that what you are saying?
1735099 says:
March 7, 2021 at 7:39 am
This is hilarious.
The clerk keeps kicking entitled stroppy males off Zoom.
Should be more of it.
An official (servant to the council) takes control of an elected council without authority and proceeds to throw out anyone who points out that she has no authority to do so.
The men in question tell us this is not the first time she’s overstepped her authority.
She then proceeds to put an edited version on the net (without authority) to humiliate elected councillors and push her own agenda.
I would sack her in a heartbeat.
I remember Tony Daley as a prop who was quick.
I didn’t know anything about this.
It has relevance to what is going down in Federal politics atm.
Times have changed.