Open Thread – Saturday, 04 June 2022

Posted on June 4, 2022 by Adam D
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  1. Steve trickler says:
    June 9, 2022 at 7:22 pm

    Egg, chill out.


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  2. Winston Smith says:
    June 9, 2022 at 7:43 pm

    Arky I just discovered your video. That’s bloody rotten luck, mate. Was it just the shed and car or was there more damage?


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  3. Steve trickler says:
    June 9, 2022 at 7:52 pm

    I’ve worked in kitchens when the Italian family wanted to kill each other.

    Mother, ultimately saved the day. Mother dragging down the son to keep that carving knife from his sister. It was mental!

    Cooking and making pasta with the sauce was therapy with the lady….I loved that lady. She was a blessing. The family arguments was bonkers.

    And now I know how to cook the ultimate pasta sauce.


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  4. Ragu says:
    June 9, 2022 at 8:08 pm

    Egg, chill out.

    Yeah, C’mon man, Cat ladies are cool.


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  5. Admin Admin says:
    June 9, 2022 at 8:10 pm

    This blog has one major rule: The No Dickheads Policy.
    This policy is enforced.

    Everyone else is welcome.

    egg, you are on notice. Continue to post comments in the same vein that you have been doing today, and you will be temporarily blocked or even permanently banned from this blog.

    Megan, I have no idea why your comments are ending up in moderation. I have checked the tags and there is no reason for the block.


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  6. Shy Ted says:
    June 9, 2022 at 8:18 pm

    Up your game, people. Monkey pox isn’t going to just come and get you. You’ve got to make an effort. Or ten.


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  8. Megan says:
    June 9, 2022 at 8:20 pm

    Attention seekers

    I have limited time these days and made a considered decision to seriously cut back on my online participation and contributions.

    Came over herw for one specific reason – to commiserate with Arky’s loss of the Model A.

    As to which blogs I read and comment on- it is absolutely none of your business, you thin-shelled, deluded bossy boots. Free world and all that.


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  9. Megan says:
    June 9, 2022 at 8:24 pm

    Megan, I have no idea why your comments are ending up in moderation. I have checked the tags and there is no reason for the block.

    No problems, Adam. I thought it might just be the fact I hadnt commented for a while.
    I also have a new phone that is proving to be a wickedly interfering piece of overdesigned tech that has performed at least one weird WTF phone prank on me each day.

    [Megan, it may be your phone with some security features. Whenever you are able to, test from another device and see if it gets through. It was puzzling me and I couldn’t work out why your comments are getting blocked. – Admin]


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  10. Ragu says:
    June 9, 2022 at 8:25 pm

    Oh shit

    Everyone, act busy


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  12. Old bloke says:
    June 9, 2022 at 8:40 pm

    Arky, it was heartbreaking to see what happened to your pride & joy, just devastating.

    What caused the shed fire, was the possum smoking in bed?


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  13. egg_ says:
    June 9, 2022 at 8:56 pm

    egg, you are on notice. Continue to post comments in the same vein that you have been doing today, and you will be temporarily blocked or even permanently banned from this blog.

    Go ahead, dickhead!


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  18. Siltstone says:
    June 9, 2022 at 10:25 pm

    Hard lines Arky,commiserations. So enjoyed your vids.


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  19. mh says:
    June 10, 2022 at 6:38 am

    Stocks fell sharply on Thursday ahead of a key inflation report as investors worried about the state of the U.S. economy.

    The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 638.11 points, or 1.94%, to close at 32,272.79. The S&P 500 dropped 2.38% to settle at 4,017.82, and the Nasdaq Composite shed 2.75% to come in at 11,754.23.


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  20. mh says:
    June 10, 2022 at 6:49 am

    Beaudesert and Canungra both currently have temps below zero. 🥶


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  21. Ragu says:
    June 10, 2022 at 6:53 am

    Well, that’s what happens when one goes on a Loyd Weber bender.


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  22. Ragu says:
    June 10, 2022 at 7:10 am

    Its warmer in Slowbart, though not necessarily better.


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  23. Ragu says:
    June 10, 2022 at 7:18 am

    PJW sans chapeau – gay pride month

    https://youtu.be/fSg9gXVJDI0


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  24. mh says:
    June 10, 2022 at 7:25 am

    Here’s a Bob toon to go with that, Ragu


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  25. johanna johanna says:
    June 10, 2022 at 9:11 am

    Excellent toon, mh. I’m pinching it and posting (with attribution) at Dover’s.

    This site is a great resource for links. Thanks to all.


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  26. Steve trickler says:
    June 10, 2022 at 9:53 am

    Crowder:

    Matthew McConaughey took over the White House on Tuesday to lecture Americans on guns. It wasn’t all bad, but the bad stuff was HORRIBLE! We take it down point by point. Also, pro-abortion extremists are on the rampage, and you won’t see it on the news. And the FBI failed once again at stopping pedos.

    Matthew McConaughey: BASED or CONFUSED About Gun Control? | Louder with Crowder


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  27. Steve trickler says:
    June 10, 2022 at 9:54 am

    Time stamps for the clip above.

    00:00 Intro
    09:10 Duane Wade On Gun Reform
    16:15 Activist at Olsteen Church
    25:00 Attacks at Abortion Clinics
    33:35 Larry Nasar Lawsuit
    44:54 Good Ranchers Deal!
    46:55 Matthew McConaughey in DC
    1:10:28 HR Karen
    1:15:00 Piss Off, YouTube


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  28. Winston Smith says:
    June 10, 2022 at 11:05 am

    This whole Brett Kavanaugh Protest thing is looking more like something from the Dodgy O’Biden/Harris Administration being concocted.


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  29. Steve trickler says:
    June 10, 2022 at 11:16 am

    Tony Heller:

    “If the present refuses to get warmer, then the past must become cooler”

    Hiding Australia’s Hot Past


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  33. Barking Toad says:
    June 10, 2022 at 1:06 pm

    Steve trickler @11:16am

    Thanks for the link.

    It will get a run.


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  34. Cardimona says:
    June 10, 2022 at 1:09 pm

    Arky says:
    June 9, 2022 at 2:02 pm

    Arky, that’s truly tragic, man – commiserations.
    Every time I did a fire investigation I could feel the pain of the resident’s loss as a palpable presence.
    From what I could see from your short video, the fire was discovered and knocked down pretty quickly – to the credit of whoever first responded to it.


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  35. Steve trickler says:
    June 10, 2022 at 1:36 pm

    Excellent rendition on a nicely tuned piano.

    Music takes you places.

    *******I played “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence” at a station in Japan and many people stopped to listen.


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  36. Delta A says:
    June 10, 2022 at 1:49 pm

    “If the present refuses to get warmer, then the past must become cooler”

    Hiding Australia’s Hot Past

    Great post. Thanks, Steve.


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  37. Arky says:
    June 10, 2022 at 1:50 pm

    From what I could see from your short video, the fire was discovered and knocked down pretty quickly – to the credit of whoever first responded to it.

    ..
    Fireys were magnificent. They saved the the house, and aside from the garage, we only had to deal with smoke damage in the rest of the house.
    It’s months ago now, I only made the vid so that I can move on with other projects and those who view my tiny channel can know why the car is on hold for time being.


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  38. Ragu says:
    June 10, 2022 at 2:03 pm

    Hey, Arky. After the transverse do you have to plane that timber longitudinally?


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  39. Steve trickler says:
    June 10, 2022 at 2:03 pm

    Have a laugh.

    *******

    Andre Antunes:

    KAREN METAL 3 | Victoria’s Secret Karen


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  40. Arky says:
    June 10, 2022 at 2:57 pm

    Ragu says:
    June 10, 2022 at 2:03 pm

    ..
    Yes.
    Scrub planing across to knock down the high spots, then plane with the grain, then progressive waves of sanding.
    I’m not really a wood guy, but that is the plan.


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  42. kaysee kaysee says:
    June 10, 2022 at 3:06 pm

    Jordan Peterson on the Sports Illustrated Controversy:

    ‘F you, if you don’t like it’


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  43. kaysee kaysee says:
    June 10, 2022 at 3:17 pm

    Sorry, Ragu. Just catching up. You’ve already posted the PJW – Gay Pride Month. I quickly scroll through to avoid double-posting but didn’t spot it.


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  44. Ragu says:
    June 10, 2022 at 3:21 pm

    Good luck to you.

    I would have levelled it off and made a track for my router. Then after a couple of days thinking about it, going through the scrap metal laying about, give up.


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  45. Ragu says:
    June 10, 2022 at 3:23 pm

    It’s all good, Kaysee


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  46. kaysee kaysee says:
    June 10, 2022 at 3:47 pm

    (Let me know if my links are outside the parameters of the site, please.)

    Winston, this blog is open to information from a range of topics. Serious, funny or in-between. Readers can pick and choose topics that interest them.

    My method:
    When available, I try to paste in some info with the links (like the blurb below a video or parts of an article) so that those who are busy can quickly read the comment, and those who are interested can click the link and read/watch the entire article/video.

    Self-censorship to avoid causing any legal hassles for the blog.


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  47. kaysee kaysee says:
    June 10, 2022 at 4:10 pm

    Fireys were magnificent. They saved the the house, and aside from the garage, we only had to deal with smoke damage in the rest of the house.
    It’s months ago now,

    Arky, I got the impression from your video that it was a smaller fire, confined to your shed, and it ruined your Model A. That, by itself, was bad enough. Thankfully, the fireys saved the house.

    To have a hobby project that has been your labour-of-love end up in smoke is saddening. But it is to your credit that, instead of giving up, you are prepared to start over again. A Phoenix-car rising from the ashes.

    Good Luck, Arky, with the restoration, whenever you decided to begin it.


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  48. johanna johanna says:
    June 10, 2022 at 4:19 pm

    Delta A says:
    June 10, 2022 at 1:49 pm

    “If the present refuses to get warmer, then the past must become cooler”

    Hiding Australia’s Hot Past

    Great post. Thanks, Steve.

    Good stuff, others have been posting this stuff for years, but it never gets any traction. Facts are haram in the religion of Global Warming.

    The BOM is unashamedly on board, and their minions get new jobs and overseas trips as rewards.

    Flying overseas and staying at comfy hotels is OK For The Cause, as we know.


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  49. mh says:
    June 10, 2022 at 4:54 pm

    George Christensen

    One of the core tenets of Western civilisation — that is, the freedom, rights and privacy of the individual — is under threat from both forces internal and external.

    External forces include the authoritarian rivals of the West, who see individualism as a threat to their rule.

    Internal forces include those so-called “elites” seeking to mimic and establish similar authoritarian systems within Western nations as a means to remove dampen the sovereignty of the citizenry and thus destroy checks and balances to their corrupt use of power.

    Arguably, the most potent threat against individual rights to emerge in recent years has been the social credit system within Communist China.

    In an ironic twist, it utilises the same tool to suppress individual freedom that once was touted to be its greatest benefactor — the Internet.

    The Chinese Communist Party regime holds unprecedented access to its citizens’ digital identity; every website visited, every link clicked, and every text sent — all is monitored by the government’s mass surveillance apparatus.

    Those who seem to be too deviant [read: free thinkers] or seem to defy the regime have their social credits deducted and hence suffer a whole host of various penalties.

    The social credit system is the most ambitious experiment of authoritarianism — one perfected to completely rid a billion people of their autonomy and keep their minds under siege.

    Worse still, we are witnessing the gradual introduction of similar systems within our own Western societies — of course, under the guise of ‘public interest.’

    The pathway to a social credit system in the West has been enhanced by COVID-19, with measures such a ‘vaccine’ passport system deployed by erstwhile democratic governments under the hoary old mantra of ‘keeping us safe’ (from a virus with 0.27 per cent infection fatality rate).

    These ‘vaccine’ passports were essentially a prototype of the coming digital ID system.

    In a recent interview published on the Rumble channel, The Vigilant Fox, Dr Mike Yeadon, who was the former chief scientist and vice-president of Pfizer’s allergy and respiratory research unit, railed against the notion of digital ID systems.

    Yeadon has been outspoken about the measures adopted to “fight” COVID-19 and how those measures have and could continue to lead to a loss of freedom, life and liberty.

    Of digital ID systems, he rightly said:

    Once you’ve got a digital ID, and they [say], ‘You can’t buy this cheap bread without sharing [digital ID]. If they say next week, ‘You can’t buy bread without sharing [digital ID],’ or the week after, ‘You can’t buy food without it.’ They literally changed the conditions. All it requires is a massive network and your digital ID, *beep*, into the system…. The database and the algorithms [would] determine whether you are [permitted] to enter somewhere or leave somewhere, [and] whether you’re able to buy or sell any particular thing at any moment. That’s the end of democracy; that’s the end of freedom.

    The race towards a digital ID system — backed by the World Economic Forum — is building around the world, including in Australia.

    But, as yet, there have been few public pronouncements about plans to implement social credit systems linked to digital ID systems.

    Perhaps that’s because those in power know there will be pushback.

    However, there are some outliers in the West who either have implemented or are implementing social credit systems in their countries right now.

    Recently, the Italian state of Bolongna announced its own plans of implementing a social credit system to reward ‘good’ behaviour, to the protest and concerns of many.

    In Germany, a similar system is already emerging nationwide.

    In the UK, such a system may have already been implemented.

    And in Australia, a social credit system is undeniably in the offing in the Dan Andrews’ Socialist Republic of Victoria, with recent explosive reports confirming that a taxpayer-funded unit had been set up to monitor various aspects of the lives of Victorian citizens, including social media posts and credit card purchases along with a range of other data purchased from private companies.

    A social credit system is a critical juncture that threatens one of the foundations of Western civilisation itself.

    History is in the making, but not on the path of progress unless, we — the good citizens — choose to exercise our rights and act fast.


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  50. kaysee kaysee says:
    June 10, 2022 at 5:23 pm

    Job Creators Network Launches ‘Rock the Woke’ Campaign
    to Shame Corporations Who Go Woke

    The Job Creators Network (JCN), one of America’s largest small business advocacy groups, is launching a campaign called “Rock the Woke,” which the organization says will “highlight egregious examples of ‘wokeness’ hijacking free-market capitalism.”

    The initiative will “pressure companies to focus on providing products and services that consumers want—not on being culture warriors,” JCN said in a statement. “’Rock the Woke’ will include a national radio ad campaign, high-profile billboards, digital ads, social media videos, and potential legal actions.”

    JCN is first setting its sights on Disney.

    “Rock the Woke ads will encourage consumers to take the ‘No Mouse in My House’ pledge and boycott Disney’s massive entertainment empire until they realize they need to focus on entertaining families mission and not being left-wing bullies,” the statement said.


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  51. mh says:
    June 10, 2022 at 5:39 pm

    Peter Schiff goes on Fox Business and frightens the horses:

    Inflation Is Just Getting Started

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY4QyeilMFA


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  52. mh says:
    June 10, 2022 at 6:25 pm

    I still have a bet pending on the Fed election – UAP to win an upper house seat.

    🐌


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  53. Fat Tony says:
    June 10, 2022 at 6:40 pm

    Arky – fukn sux about your car & shed. Feel for you, mate. Really good that you, the missus & that little feisty girl got out ok.

    And poor Old Poss not making it – he probably thought he had a nice safe place to live…


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  54. Eyrie says:
    June 10, 2022 at 6:41 pm

    Can nuclear power get us to Mars?
    One word – Orion.


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  55. Fat Tony says:
    June 10, 2022 at 6:43 pm

    Eyrie says:
    June 10, 2022 at 6:41 pm
    Can nuclear power get us to Mars?
    One word – Orion.

    Are you referring to the galaxy on Orion’s belt???


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  56. Steve trickler says:
    June 10, 2022 at 7:00 pm

    Stew Peters:

    Government over reach has become the NORM for Australia. Maria Zeee joins the show to share the urgency of Australia’s situation.

    School Announces Child Brain Microchips: Newsletter Yanked From Website After Public Outrage


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  57. Eyrie says:
    June 10, 2022 at 7:15 pm

    Hi Fat Tony, search for Project Orion Freeman Dyson Ted Taylor.
    Nuclear pulse propulsion. There’s a nice video doco on Youtube.


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  63. mh says:
    June 10, 2022 at 10:38 pm

    Peak inflation? Not yet!

    CNBC
    The May consumer price index report came in hotter than expected, putting pressure on the stock market. The report showed prices rising 8.6% year over year, and 6% when excluding food and energy prices.


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