Open Thread – Saturday, 23 October 2021

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  1. shatterzzz says:

    My early 2020 build Dell Inspiron 3493 laptop (FHD Graphics, the works), despite glowing recommendations from Windows Update, failed to update to Win11 on 2 attempts then needed the Dell factory recovery tool to revert to a Win10 image, saving my data.
    You have been warned.

    Not a worry for me.. my 2 desktops are both 2012 at latest & the laptop 2014 so I’m not thinking W11 .. LOL!


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  2. mh says:

    The PM ‘shut down’ by Premier

    Paywallian:

    ‘THE BLANKET RULE IS NO’

    Novak’s Australian Open dreams dashed by Andrews
    Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has shut down the PM’s suggestion that unvaccinated tennis players could apply for an exemption.
    By ANGELICA SNOWDEN


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  3. Steve trickler says:

    I wonder if any of this will appear on channel Stokes?

    7 News Perth Reporter asks Bass Tadros from HAP about Vaccine Mandate


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  4. Steve trickler says:

    Judge for yourself. 1:01:01

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    Dinner With 12 American Muslims (BIG Episode) 🇺🇸


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  5. Black Ball Black Ball says:

    The decay in Australian entertainment is complete.


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  6. Black Ball Black Ball says:

    That previous link was from Tim Blair. From that blog post comes this from the Paywallian:

    “Former Today show host Lisa Wilkinson has omitted important details in her new book about a separate $500,000 contract she had with a vitamins company that was a key frustration for Nine management during her contract negotiations in 2017  …

    In the book she discusses numerous times the “gender pay gap” between her and co-host Karl Stefanovic, who she said was earning much more than her, but it is understood she fails to make any mention of a separate, lucrative contract she had with vitamins company Vitaco (owner of health brand Nutra-Life)’


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  7. Neil says:

    Marcus Harris out for 9. Joe Burns currently 73 not out. And people want Harris to open for Australia????


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  8. Steve trickler says:

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  9. shatterzzz says:

    The decay in Australian entertainment is complete.

    Not surprised .. NETFLIX has sooo much money to waste .. they financed that, kiddie porn, rubbish movie, CUTIES, so a few bob wasted on Lisa won’t be missed …!


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  10. Black Ball Black Ball says:

    And what were the previous scores Burns has posted?


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  11. Black Ball Black Ball says:

    Quiz time. Who said these words?

    ‘It was the biggest cheat in the US election. Media and tech giants, plus top US intelligence figures, buried a truth likely to destroy Joe Biden’s campaign, claiming it was “Russian misinformation”.  

    But even a media outlet which spread that fake news now confesses: damning emails found on the laptop of Joe Biden’s son were actually real.’


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  12. Neil says:

    And what were the previous scores Burns has posted?

    Who cares?? Harris has a Test batting average of 24. Burns = 37


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  13. Black Ball Black Ball says:

    Selectors care numbnuts. Now answer the question


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  14. calli says:

    Not scared of you great big old pussycats!

    😽

    And thanks for the alternative commentary.


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  15. caveman says:

    Novak’s Australian Open dreams dashed by Andrews
    Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has shut down the PM’s suggestion that unvaccinated tennis players could apply for an exemption.

    The Joker should come as a Chinese student, then he would only have to do 14 day iso just like they all have to do.

    The stairs just werent that steep enuff.


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  16. caveman says:

    Ive been watching this dog for a while and the community that has talked value into it keeping in the top 30 rated crypto coins and its now No 11 on the crypto list.

    Crypto coin to watch


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  17. johanna johanna says:

    Hey Steve T, good to see you have resurfaced from the family cauldron! 🙂

    I just wanted to thank you for, and commend to others, the link to the Swiss Air Force you posted a couple of days ago doing scary brave things with Hornets in the Alps. It was breathtaking stuff. A jet would plunge into a deep valley and disappear, and I thought OMG that’s it. Then the damned thing would re-appear, soaring almost straight upwards.

    Never even knew there was such a thing as the Swiss Air Force, but those guys are absolutely amazing. Anyone who took them on in the Alps would get their arse handed to them toot sweet.


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  18. Neil says:

    Selectors care numbnuts. Now answer the question

    If Burns was from NSW or Victoria he never would have been dropped in the first place. If the selectors had stuck with Burns he would have played 50 tests by now with a batting average of 37.

    Instead they dropped him 5 or 6 times and nobody they replaced him with did a better job.

    One of his replacements was Handscombe and how did that go?? Sandpapergate would never have happened if Burns was Warners opening partner.


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  19. JohnJJJ says:

    workplace, how September 11th changed life for them, and many other compelling topics

    Dinner With 12 American Muslims (BIG Episode)
    ——————————————————–
    Sorry looked at a bit, but it was the usual shirking ( an Arab word by the way) anything important. Did they discuss the Shia/Sunni “relationship”?


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  20. Knuckle Dragger says:

    And people want Harris to open for Australia????

    No. Anyone but Duck Egg Joe. His last score was 2 from 16 balls, incidentally.


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  21. Shy Ted says:

    Top grade tennis players practice every day for hours. They don’t sit in hotel rooms for 14 days and then play. Same with all elite sportsmen. He should boycott. All players should boycott all their matches, refuse all testing and sit back, watch and wait. They’ve been used as political pawns for for far too long. Refuse to play again until their sports administrators have been tossed.


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  22. Knuckle Dragger says:

    Jimmy Seymour is your man to open the innings. 28, very classy left hander, fitter than anyone going around. Mind like a laser beam.

    Debuted for the Vics at the end of last season. Premier Grade captain at Essendon. All the makings of a ten year opener.

    Everything Burns is not. At Test level.


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  23. calli says:

    Just relocate the whole kit and caboodle to Sydney Olympic Park.

    Melbourne is just way too dangerous. Too many street gangs dressed like storm troopers.


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  24. Neil says:

    Everything Burns is not. At Test level.

    At Test level Burns has a batting average of 37.

    Geoff Marsh the father of Shaun Marsh played 50 Tests for Australia opening bat and had a batting average of 33.

    Fact is Burns is from Queensland. And there is the problem. If he was from Victoria they would have stuck with him and Burns would have played 50 Tests by now with a batting average of 37


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  25. mh says:

    Neil, what is Joe Burns’ batting average at Test level?


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  26. Neil says:

    Neil, what is Joe Burns’ batting average at Test level?

    It is better than yours.

    Fact is Burns is from Queensland. If he was from Victoria or NSW opening the bat with an average of 37 he would not have been dropped.

    Since 2014 when Burns was first picked nobody has done better than Joe Burns opening. Nobody.


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  27. Ragu says:

    After phil Hughes got murdered, anyone that continues to follow cricket is a dickhead


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  28. Knuckle Dragger says:

    ‘Nobody.’

    Warner.


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  29. mh says:

    Paywallian:

    The grassroots of the Liberal National Party will vote on a motion against a net-zero target in an embarrassing rebuke of Scott Morrison’s new policy.


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  30. Neil says:

    Nobody.’

    Warner.

    I meant anybody other than Warner.

    Name me anybody since 2014 that they picked to partner Warner that has done any better than Joe Burns??

    I am not asking for 3 or 4 people. Just one person. That is from 6 years ago to the present.


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  31. mh says:

    The Age

    ‘Industrial commissioner backed claim COVID health measures a step toward Holocaust’
    ***

    Greg Reese agrees:
    THE TEN STAGES OF GENOCIDE
    https://banned.video/watch?id=60df47eb8f54c83cf1ba5072


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  32. Knuckle Dragger says:

    ‘I meant anybody other than Warner.’

    Well, say what you mean.
    Otherise you just look stupid. Over half your sweeping statement just got blown out the window, and you did it all yourself.


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  33. mh says:

    Aussie Cossack

    ‼️ ALERT: Recruiting volunteers & political activists. It’s time for a Political Counter-attack!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rehvV8obblw
    ***

    The music is unnecessary in this vid.


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  34. cohenite says:

    Good analysis of the Kyle Rittenhouse case. Kyle is in a similar predicament to Derek Chauvin, the poor cop who happened to be doing his job when that POS big george carked it. The lefties are already threatening violence and the prosecution is lying through it’s rotten teeth. Tim Pool:

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


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  35. mh says:

    Bradman
    Border
    Jones
    Smith
    Burns


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  36. Neil says:

    Well, say what you mean.

    The topic has always been somebody to replace the person to partner Warner when i don’t know who retired.

    I have not looked it up. Who retired in 2014??

    Anyway since 2014 Joe Burns was the best.

    He was an average opener compared to the greats. But Burns was better than anybody they tried since 2014


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  37. Knuckle Dragger says:

    Test batsmen, in descending order of competence:

    James Anderson
    Glenn McGrath
    Jim Higgs
    Phil Tufnell
    Bert Ironmonger (Test average 2.62)
    Joe Burns


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  38. Neil says:

    Misleading people order of competence

    “””Knuckle Dragger”””

    You have to be from a State other than Queensland.

    If Joe Burns was from Victoria what comes out of your mouth would be different

    PS. Please tell me since 2014 anybody who has done better than Joe Burns who replaced i do not know who in 2014????


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  39. Steve trickler says:

    johanna says:
    October 27, 2021 at 5:52 pm

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  40. Neil says:

    Will Pucovski

    Wow one example. Who cares??

    Anyway Pucovski has an average of 36. One less than Joe Burns.

    If Burns was from Victoria or NSW he would never have been dropped.

    Nobody since 2014 has done better than Joe Burns to replace whoever partnered Warner

    You people are as dishonest as the lefties i normally argue with


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  41. Knuckle Dragger says:

    A fine summary of Neil’s comment at 10.23:

    ‘i do not know who in 2014????’

    Are you sure that’s what you meant to say? This time?


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  42. Black Ball Black Ball says:

    Laziest cricketer in Australia, and that includes Mark Cosgrove, Usman Khawaja averages 96.80 opening


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  43. Black Ball Black Ball says:

    Pucovski in one innings made more than Burns in 3 Tests. Do try harder Neil Down


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  44. Black Ball Black Ball says:

    You always lose Neil, give it up son


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  45. Neil says:

    You always lose Neil, give it up son

    Please tell me anybody who they got to partner Warner since i do not know who retired in 2014??

    Burns has a Test average of 37.

    Name me anybody who has a better average than 37 since 2014 opening the bat other than Warner??


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  46. cohenite says:

    Name me anybody who has a better average than 37 since 2014 opening the bat other than Warner??

    Rohit Sharma


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  47. Knuckle Dragger says:

    ‘Rohit Sharma’

    Ha ha ha.


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  48. Knuckle Dragger says:

    Adam Voges.


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  49. Knuckle Dragger says:

    That’s what you meant, right Neil?

    No?


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  50. Black Ball Black Ball says:

    Gave you 2 dickhead. Fuck off


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  51. Neil says:

    Gave you 2 dickhead. Fuck off

    Fact is nobody since 2014 who has partnered Warner has a better average than Joe Burns

    Like all lefties you mislead and deceive people.

    I guess you are a Victorian??

    Fact is since 2014 nobody the selectors picked to partner Warner has done better than Joe Burns


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  52. Black Ball Black Ball says:

    Don’t be a stain.
    Like all Leftist morons, you are what you acvuse others of. Disappear now. Pucovski, Shaun Marsh even. Disappear now up your own orifice. Im done with you.


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  53. Knuckle Dragger says: