Open Thread – Thursday 12 August 2021

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  1. Grigory M says:

    Urb asked for comforting words for the funeral of his mother and instead all you old folks sent condolences to Dot. That is just so bad.

    Slowly shook my head as I read over just how many of you did so.


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  2. cohenite says:

    That Ivermectin Triple Therapy Protocol article was dated August of last year.
    Have doctors been prescribing it or not?

    Or not.


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  3. struth says:

    Dare I predict something about supply chains, but I’m stocking up.


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  4. Neil says:

    Just wondering if lack of contact with people may cause other problems. We build up immunity by getting infected with mild forms of a virus. This builds up our immune system. Because people are now washing hands more often and social distancing means we may not be getting the mild infections we used to get which our body could deal with.

    So our immune system may be getting weaker because of lockdown.


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  5. cohenite says:

    This photo sums up everything wrong with education in this country: all the woke threads are represented:

    Feminism
    Gender diversity
    3rd nations and invasion crap
    Anti-West

    https://journals.sagepub.com/page/aed/collections/meet-our-authors/hogarth


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  6. struth says:

    I was a tour driver for years and that meant (especially back in the 90’s when we used to get foreign tourists) bus loads of people from all over the world breathing and coughing through the air cond, closed coach.
    Sick as a dog for nearly two years, quite often.
    Colds and flus.
    Then never hardly caught anything for years, as different variants of corona viruses you can be immune to because you caught others.
    A strong immune system.
    Then went back to trucks for a number of years.
    When I went back into tour work a few years ago……sick as a dog, often.
    Expected it, hoped it wasn’t too bad but expected it.
    This we used to call common knowledge.
    We also knew that taking vaccines only helped the vaccinated, etc.
    But then, people were sane back then.


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  7. struth says:

    In mandating these Vaccines, we should never rest until Scott Morrison and anyone forcing the jab on people to stand trial for murder.


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  8. a reader says:

    The best part of the lockdown buddy for the single people, if the only person you know lives 5km away you’re screwed and can’t see a single soul you know. What a fucking disgraceful hurtful horrible inhumane unjust antihuman cruel nasty disgusting regime the Health Hazzard and his puppet Beryl oversee


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  9. Runnybum says:

    Ya gotta admit Australians are dumb fuckers.
    The next state or feral election they will vote for either 1 of 2 shit traitorous parties in the belief that their shit traitorous party is not as bad as the other shit traitorous party.
    We are fucked.


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  10. Baba says:

    Has rosieblownaheadgasket ?


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  11. Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure says:

    Re that Paul Joseph Watson clip on the bloke who’s been involuntarily sectioned, and the clip transmitted from inside the lockup ward.

    There was a time not so long ago when I’d have said “There may be more to this story, he’s knowingly omitted something pertinent.”

    Not anymore, I’ve seen enough to believe it could happen exactly as he’s saying.
    (For those who’re not particularly bright, this is not the same as saying “it must have happened exactly as he’s saying”)


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  12. amortiser says:

    You really have to laugh about the Queensland Premier’s constant mantra about keeping Queenslanders safe by the imposition of lockdowns and COVID restrictions. The most basic of services for the safety of citizens is the timely provision of ambulance and paramedic services.

    How is this going?

    We have been hearing horror stories of the high incidence of ramping outside casualty rooms at hospitals. Eight or nine ambulances queued up outside hospitals waiting for resources to free up inside and leaving patients at serious risk while waiting treatment are commonplace.

    The ramifications of this cascade. Large numbers of paramedics are tied up in queues while other patients seeking urgent paramedic services are left waiting.

    How serious is this situation? Well this happened to the SIL of a close friend of mine. Two weeks ago he suffered a heart attack at home in an inner Brisbane suburb not 15 minutes from a major public hospital. The ambulance was called and those looking after him waited more than 90 minutes for the ambulance to arrive. This is probably the most urgent case they are called upon to attend but it took more than 90 minutes to respond.

    That man died in hospital a couple of days ago. He was 43 with a wife and children.

    The premier is keeping Queenslanders safe with her every waking moment. What a fraud?


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  13. srr says:

    Darrel Nay @darrelnay 1h
    ·
    LOL

    These are the same people saying to trust the science

    “Clinical Researchers Sentenced in Connection with Scheme to Falsify Drug Trial Data”
    https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/clinical-researchers-sentenced-connection-scheme-falsify-drug-trial-data-0
    “Department of Justice
    Office of Public Affairs
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
    Wednesday, August 11, 2021”


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  14. srr says:

    Top 14 Most Evil Doctors of the Last Two Centuries
    By Linda Girgis, MD
    Oct 25, 2019
    https://www.physiciansweekly.com/top-14-most-evil-doctors-of-the-last-two-centuries

    But that’s only a very short list, add to them, only the doctors & nurses who pushed for perform abortion on demand, the doctors & nurses who push for the normalisation of “trans-kids” despite all the reasons not to that they learned in “transitioning” adults, and oh my …


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  15. rickw says:

    Another machine delivered through Dickhead Dan’s ring of steel! Hercus Model O mill. Late model three slot table, per usual, no vertical head:

    https://imgur.com/gallery/HDxYRQF


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  16. Steve trickler says:

    Crazy to think of all those years in clubs and pubs, in the mosh pit, trading sweat on the dance floor… and the most I got was a sore throat. Think about some claustrophobic environments and I was immersed right in the guts.

    This was early 2000’s and you would go to work on Monday with a flyer on the desk from your employer advocating a flu jab. Complete with newspaper clippings suggesting you do it.

    Memories.

    Bedrock – Heaven Scent (original video)


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  17. mh says:

    ‘Two weeks ago he suffered a heart attack at home in an inner Brisbane suburb not 15 minutes from a major public hospital. The ambulance was called and those looking after him waited more than 90 minutes for the ambulance to arrive. This is probably the most urgent case they are called upon to attend but it took more than 90 minutes to respond.’
    ***
    CM reported one where the person died after waiting 9 hours for an ambo!
    #KeepingQueenslandersSafe


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  18. srr says:

    “struth says:
    August 14, 2021 at 3:41 pm

    https://tv.gab.com/media/61170a0ad24793a986ddd47e?viewKey=29d407a4-eb85-4da1-bb4c-9da2f03ed509&r=1080p

    What pisses me off struth is all those who’ve been pushing The Jab as a “smart”, “personal”, “choice”, and have know damn well that the average Joes of the world are being set up for No Choice at all.


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  19. mh says:

    NSW will enter a statewide lockdown from 5pm Saturday, with all regional areas joining Greater Sydney and western NSW with stay at home orders.

    Everyone in NSW must now stay home and only leave the house for exercise, essential shopping, medical care and for work you can’t do at home.

    Schooling will be conducted at home.


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  20. amortiser says:

    “ Filbert says:
    August 14, 2021 at 2:16 pm
    Not sure if this has been posted, but David Lyonhelm tweeted it yesterday.
    Australian GPs Can Legally Prescribe Ivermectin Triple Therapy Protocol — Professor Thomas Borody
    https://www.australiannationalreview.com/state-of-affairs/australian-gps-can-legally-prescribe-ivermectin-triple-therapy-protocol-professor-thomas-borody/“

    The take up will not be very big. People with flu like symptoms are excluded from GP clinics and are sent off for testing. While awaiting the testing results they are isolated at home and if they test positive they remain quarantined at home or admitted to hospital as appears to be the case in Qld. They are under the care of the Dept of Health.

    This means that COVID is effectively taken out of the hands of GPs. The state health ministers have made it clear that Ivermectin or other re purposed medicines are not recommended for use. Patients would have to remove themselves from health Department control and seek treatment from their GP.

    This is not likely as GPs don’t want to risk their practices being closed down after exposure to COVID.

    It’s a bit of a Catch 22 situation.


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  21. Shy Ted says:

    In the northern hemisphere there’s a very tasty species of fish called pollock. I think they only use the male of the species for fish cakes
    https://twitter.com/Naughtydonna1/status/1425411603911041029


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  22. Old School Conservative says:

    From cohenite’s link to Malcolm Roberts:
    Alphabet owns YouTube and Google. Alphabet owns 12 per cent of Vaccitech, which created the AstraZeneca vaccine. YouTube bans videos mentioning ivermectin as a COVID treatment.
    Of course our investigative media are chasing this conflict of interest right now.


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  23. Diogenes says:

    The best part of the lockdown buddy for the single people, if the only person you know lives 5km away you’re screwed and can’t see a single soul you know. What a fucking disgraceful hurtful horrible inhumane unjust antihuman cruel nasty disgusting regime the Health Hazzard and his puppet Beryl oversee
    —————————————————————-
    Younger brother lives in the Blue Mountains, his girlfriend in Avalon. As I mentioned she is a Dr who is currently working as a locum in a regional hospital. As she had an accident a few weeks ago that left her with an injury that means she cannot drive, so my brother drives from Blue Mntns to Avalon to a motel in (town), backwards and forwards from motel to hospital (at least once a day in each direction), back to Avalon, then home. They have a letter from NSW Health permitting this.

    So now when he drives her home from (town), about 4 hours out of Sydney), he cannot stay with her, despite having stayed with her for 7 days in (town)

    Absolute, complete and utter bullshit!

    Younger bro was, as I posted on the old site, an NSWPlod Inspector 20 years ago. He does not think highly of Fuller, or the Whore-boy.


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  24. kaysee says:

    In new documentary, WHO scientist says Chinese officials pressured investigation to drop lab-leak hypothesis

    The World Health Organization expert who led a controversial joint probe into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic says in a documentary airing Thursday night on Danish television that Chinese colleagues influenced the presentation of their findings.

    Speaking to Danish documentarians, Peter Ben Embarek said Chinese researchers on the team had pushed back against linking the origins of the pandemic to a research laboratory in Wuhan in a report about the investigation.


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  25. Neil says:

    The migrating Europeans killed a lot of native peoples because the native Indians caught diseases they had no immunity to. The same may happen to us. We may come out of lockdown with a weakened immune system because we are not catching the mild forms of viruses that our body can deal with.

    So after lockdown people may die of the flu because of a weakened immune system.


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  26. Steve trickler says:

    All directions are coming from overseas.

    Why us?


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  27. Roger says:

    Mentally deranged NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller declares that “We know people have been rorting the recreation and exercise rule.”

    Upshot: he is dispatching the RIOT SQUAD to get even.

    ———————————

    Which reminds me…where are the civil liberties wankers right now?

    And I hope someone who is assaulted sues the arse off of Commissioner Fuller and NSW plod.


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  28. Diogenes says:

    After catching up with all the latest news, thank god we bit the bullet, took the financial hit, and did the 2 weeks in Qld hotel quarantine when we did. This morning we visited the town in the hinterland where we are building and the ‘joint was jumping’, then more shopping at Sunshine Plaza, and lunch at a proper restaurant.

    Tomorrow will be my birthday lunch with the kids & grandkids at a pub.


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  29. srr says:

    Doctors, Nurses & other Medical Professional Push This Evil and the educators push it further because Medical Experts endorse it, and of course all those pushing the, ‘trust us, we’re the experts, get the Jab’, line, are 100% trustworthy & on the up & up /sarc –

    Scotland’s Transgender Pre-Schoolers

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

    Aug 14, 2021
    The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters


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  30. Barry says:

    Stan29 says:
    August 14, 2021 at 2:59 pm

    Steve trickled 2:05

    This article explains it

    https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/the-great-lie-at-the-heart-of-australia-s-de-facto-covid-19-strategy-is-about-to-be-exposed-20210706-p58782.html

    Uhlmann is a vaccine shill.

    The only sensible path, well documented way before 2020, was to protect the vulnerable, and let everyone else get on with it. Uhlmann just sprouts Medical-Government complex advocacy, as if vaccination is the only solution. Never mentions treatment.


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  31. Franx says:

    Sure, our premiers and their minions are telling all and sundry that we need the jab to keep us safe.

    But I haven’t heard them say that the jab itself is safe.

    Nor have I heard them say how, in what ways, exactly, the jab might work to keep us safe.

    Rather, the premiers and their minions have stopped short of saying that the jab will actually prevent catching the virus.

    They have stopped short of saying that, once jabbed, we are not carriers of the virus.

    They have stopped short of saying that the jab minimises the severity of the effects of the virus.

    They have stopped short of saying that jabbing is most likely and at best, futile, and at worst, …. who knows.

    Perhaps the premiers should be asked whether the singular rationale for the jab is the jab. That would make more sense.


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  32. mh says:

    Kids Helpline
    @KidsHelplineAU
    Concerns are growing for the mental health of children as lockdowns continue. No social interactions, remote learning, and separation from family and friends have taken a toll with children as young as five reaching out to Kids Helpline


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  33. Neil says:

    “””””””””””But I haven’t heard them say that the jab itself is safe.””””””””””””

    Remember Thalidomide??? It was used on pregnant women for years until they found it was dangerous.


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  34. egg_ says:

    NSW will enter a statewide lockdown from 5pm Saturday, with all regional areas joining Greater Sydney and western NSW with stay at home orders.

    —————————————-

    Under Scumoron’s Spastic boot.


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  35. mh says:

    Fox News headline:

    Matt Damon is all in on Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck’s relationship: ‘No one’s pulling harder than I am’


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  36. Runnybum says:

    I gotta admit the thought of our politicians dying horrible deaths is quite appealing.


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  37. Bar Beach Swimmer says:

    Diogenes says:
    August 14, 2021 at 4:15 pm

    How lovely, Diogenes; wish we could enjoy your birthday all together at a nice restaurant somewhere!

    Tom, I’ve just read further up thread and discovered it’s your birthday today; bit late, I know, but I hope you’ve been able to have a nice day!


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  38. Bruce of Newcastle says:

    Some good material in this one today:

    India’s Ivermectin Blackout ​(13 Aug)

    News of India’s defeat of the Delta variant should be common knowledge. It is just about as obvious as the nose on one’s face. It is so clear when one looks at the graphs that no one can deny it.

    Yet, for some reason, we are not allowed to talk about it. Thus, for example, Wikipedia cannot mention the peer-reviewed meta-analyses by Dr. Tess Lawrie or Dr. Pierre Kory published in the American Journal of Therapeutics.

    Wikipedia is not allowed to publish the recent meta-analysis on Ivermectin authored by Dr. Andrew Hill.

    Furthermore, it is not allowed to say anything concerning http://www.ivmmeta.com showing the 61 studies comprising 23,000 patients which reveal up to a 96% reduction in death [prophylaxis] with Ivermectin.

    One can see the bias in Wikipedia by going on the “talk” pages for each subject and reading about the fierce attempts of editors to add these facts and the stone wall refusals by the “senior” editors who have an agenda. And that agenda is not loyalty to your health.

    Dovetails very well with Malcolm Roberts’ speech.

    It’s as if the authorities want to totally discredit themselves. What better way of doing that than dogmatically pursuing one answer which is only modestly effective, with serious side effect issues, yet bury any discussion of an alternative method that has few side effects, is widely used and which appears to be even more effective than the vaccines, especially against the Indian strain which we’re having so much trouble with right now.


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  39. Gab says:

    ”Rather, the premiers and their minions have stopped short of saying that the jab will actually prevent catching the virus.

    They have stopped short of saying that, once jabbed, we are not carriers of the virus.”

    Actually Andrews has already stated that the deathjab will not prevent one from catching a cold/flu the virus nor will it prevent the jabbed from passing the virus onto others – even those who have been jabbed.


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  40. mh says:

    Mark Latham urges Gladys to go harder!

    Real Mark Latham
    @RealMarkLatham
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    5h
    Seven weeks into this NSW disaster, Berejiklian is only starting to do the Hard Policing needed in places like Merrylands, Guildford and Auburn, the action One Nation called for from day one.
    Her woke PC paralysis about these ethnic realities has wrecked our State.


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  41. C.L. says:

    Yes, all of them are.
    Those hiding behind pseudonyms while they sell such lies, even more so than the medical staff who at least lie to people’s faces.
    —————-

    I am saying the politicians are lying scum, SRR, not the medical staff.
    As a simple matter of logic, a woman in her 40s who was in hospital receiving palliative care – and who happened to have COVID – did not die of the latter. That would be using a medical happenstance to scare the public solely because she was young. A politician or CHO (BIRM) who would do that – and we know very well they all do – is truly scum.


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  42. Bar Beach Swimmer says:

    Roger says:
    August 14, 2021 at 4:10 pm

    Roger, it’s really shocking that people can only go out if they’re obviously exercising. One of my rellies is unable to exercise because of her health problems so she’s not allowed out of her house at all.

    I noticed up thread that OSC said the same thing about his wife having had an operation last week. This is discrimination against older and disabled people. Where’s the anti-discrimination crowd on this?


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  43. Terry Pedersen says:

    At last, a proper lockdown in NSW with proper enforcement. 7 weeks late but better late than never.


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  44. Bar Beach Swimmer says:

    mh says:
    August 14, 2021 at 4:44 pm

    +1

    mh, the most memorable political cartoons are the ones that leave a bad taste in your mouth to such an extent that you really need some mouthwash.


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  45. mh says:

    When Latham has the support of Grigsy he might be on the wrong track.
    Just a hunch.


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  46. Franx says:

    Neil, yes, thalidomide. I think in some cases it has had generational effects.


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  47. Runnybum says:

    Latham can go fuck himself.


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  48. C.L. says:

    August 14, 2021 at 1:04 pm
    If you’re having sex with your love bubbler in the back seat of a car fewer than five kilometres from home, is that exercise?

    🎶 Will you meet me in the middle?
    🎶 Where our 5-k zones collide?


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  49. Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure says:

    C.L. says:
    August 14, 2021 at 1:04 pm

    If you’re having sex with your love bubbler in the back seat of a car fewer than five kilometres from home, is that exercise?

    There’s a lot for Plod to look into with that one;

    1/. Have you correctly registered your bubbler?
    2/. Are you the one registered by your bubbler? (hehe,)
    3/. Do you & love bubbler live within 5km of each other? (expect Plod to start carrying a UBD or Gregory guide & a divider measuring instrument)
    4/. Your vehicle is parked within 5km of your home, but is it within 5km of your bubbler’s home? (hehe,)
    5/. Reichsfuhrer Fuller has decreed (who needs laws?) that you must be fair dinkum exercising, not merely engaging in recreation. (You’d better be going at it like a threshing machine – lotsa sweat & so on – and that means both of you exercising, one had better not be starfishing it)

    6/. Then, and only then, does Plod get around to the matter of public indecency & so on.


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  50. Muddy says:

    C.L. says:
    August 14, 2021 at 4:53 pm

    A politician or CHO (BIRM) who would do that – and we know very well they all do – is truly scum.

    That type of behaviour, if correct (I’m very detached from the feral media) could be described as parasitic: Attaching oneself to a host for the purposes of acquiring nutrients from the same; detaching from the host once nutrients have been acquired, leaving the host in a less complete state than prior to the parasitic process.

    (O.K., my description is very clunky, but I didn’t want to cut n’ paste from wiki or similar).

    Parasites and parasitic behaviour.


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  51. Boambee John says:

    BBS

    I noticed up thread that OSC said the same thing about his wife having had an operation last week. This is discrimination against older and disabled people. Where’s the anti-discrimination crowd on this?

    Where they have been since February last year. With their heads firmly inserted in their rectums (recta?), mumbling “Move along, nothing to see here”.


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  52. Speedbox says:

    Bruce of Newcastle says:
    August 14, 2021 at 4:47 pm

    One can see the bias in Wikipedia by going on the “talk” pages for each subject and reading about the fierce attempts of editors to add these facts and the stone wall refusals by the “senior” editors who have an agenda.

    I was only mentioning that very thing a couple of days ago. I used to do some editing of Wikipedia but if my edits didn’t match the ‘approved’ line, my edits would not be endorsed/accepted by the senior editor. Comments about accuracy and ensuring Wiki was up-to-date didn’t seem to make a difference. I had a couple of blues over the time and eventually gave up.

    I did get changes through on things that were perceived as benign but anything that could be considered ‘controversial’ was verboten. Accuracy be damned.


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  53. struth says:

    Latham just lost a tonne of votes.
    Once a lefty, always a lefty.
    Look at Bolt.


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  54. Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure says:

    Some people have been locked down for a while now.
    When did the Sydney lockdown commence?


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  55. Dot says:

    Welp,

    Martial law for all of NSW.

    At least no more 40 year olds receiving palliative care for terminal, stage IV cancer will die with COVID.

    We’re all in this together guys. Just another 17 months of a two week lockdown to flatten the curve guys.


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  56. struth says:

    Isn’t a bubbler a drinking fountain?


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  57. Boambee John says:

    Terry Pedersen says:
    August 14, 2021 at 4:55 pm
    At last, a proper lockdown in NSW with proper enforcement. 7 weeks late but better late than never.

    Perry the Very Tedious One just had an orgasm.


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  58. srr says:

    “Steve trickler says:
    August 14, 2021 at 4:08 pm
    All directions are coming from overseas.

    Why us?”
    ________________________

    We have to learn to obey the overlords if we’re to be allowed to stay living in this glorious land.

    The constant news of, ‘all the stars & mega rich are buying in New Zealand’, was a ruse.
    Australia, the uniquely stable & rich land & waters sitting on it’s own tectonic plate with it’s own moat, was always the planned bolt hole when the evil bastards made the rest of the world unliveable.

    Our insane underdevelopment has also worked at keeping the “Out Crowd”, out. Not a problem though as we have all the primary resources & new tech to be able develop at a super rate, with the added bonus of not making all worst mistakes of the US, UK etc.

    The big picture is really big, Biblically big, so big it doesn’t need much cover up as it’s scale is too daunting for most to be able to focus out to.


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  59. Muddy says:

    Love blubber?
    I cannot decide if I’m too young or too old to understand that.

    Thank goodness Cat3 is finally getting into the chunky intellectual topics though.


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  60. Dot says:

    Maybe Reichsleiter Fuller can fine people with their bubbler for not wearing a facemask if they starfish it?

    Is sex yoga still allowed for groups of 20 people if they wear a face mask?

    Or is it limited to groups of two – and is the oldest profession still allowed to operated?

    All I know is banning karaoke and singing in church hurts at at a spiritual level.


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  61. C.L. says:

    These NSW “cases” are spiking because of lockdown but GlaChaHa cannot acknowledge that and change course because it would constitute not only an admission of unprecedented negligence but a hanging offence to boot.

    Sad Glad – and Sneakers and The Chook – learned from the master, Andrews, that the thing to do is to double, triple and quadruple down on lockdowns until the simultaneity of your latest iteration of that literally sickening policy – and the downslope of the bell curve – saves your political life.

    These politicians are literally killing people and destroying lives to protect themselves. And the media is driving it all because COVID is making a fortune for them and their owners.

    Only massive, rolling and ceaseless marches and civil disobedience will end this.

    The next big thing is ‘vaccine’ failure. Twostix has pointed out that Australia’s political/media elites are currently pretending the ‘vaccines’ are the answer but, in private, they’re already work-shopping and war-gaming talking points and tactics for ‘vaccine’ failure. Six months from now, the booster hesitant will be the enemy.


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  62. struth says:

    I’m about to grab my crystal ball.
    Outsiders will moan about crazy lefty lunacy and a few other things but will fully endorse vaccinations while Rowan will be the only one stating an objection to mandatory vaccinations.
    It won’t be worth sitting through.
    They are getting concerned for self preservation now as well, and their bosses have obviously told them to go easy.
    I hope I’m wrong.


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  63. Neil says:

    I am saying the politicians are lying scum, SRR, not the medical staff.

    Wouldn’t it be the other way around??? Politicians have no expertise in virus management so i guess they are just going on Public Service advice and repeating what they are told. I doubt they would make stuff up. Now the medical authorities might to cover themselves. Some people would not even know what palliative care is.


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  64. Muddy says:

    Boambee John says:
    August 14, 2021 at 5:10 pm

    With their heads firmly inserted in their rectums (recta?), mumbling “Move along, nothing to see here”.

    Is there a collective noun for rectum?
    A parliament of rectums?
    A cabinet of rectums?


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  65. cohenite says:

    Reading bird’s fucktard’s comments about islam while watching a report on afghanistan; what a shithole, like every other muslim controlled shithole. Islam is like the left: everything they touch turns to shit; islam is pure leftism. The West tried for 20 years to train the afghan population to resist the taliban, human cockroaches, and failed; they failed because islam is so insidious it permanently warps human psychology and spirit. Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s was comparable to Western nations; then islam reared it’s ghastly head and today despite Russian and US intervention it is lost for the forseeable future, at least until islam is destroyed. Some interesting photos of Afghanistan before the taliban turned up:

    https://allthatsinteresting.com/1960s-afghanistan


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  66. Franx says:

    Gab, you’re right, and I understand that some aspects of realities about the jab are mentioned at various times. Yet there is no rationale expressed when actually advocating for the jab, for in that process there is a very clear stopping short of the realities. Rather, it’s take the jab because take the jab because the jab. But, in truth, it’s even more evil than that. As is so much under the current regimes.


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  67. Roger says:

    Roger, it’s really shocking that people can only go out if they’re obviously exercising.

    —————————–

    It is inhumane, BBS.

    It is going to affect people’s mental health.

    I hope someone has the nous to organise a class action against Berejiklian and Co.


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  68. ikamatua says:

    I think it’s time to set your personal limit of how much more of this utter bullshit you’re willing to take.
    It’s important if you do so that you pick a line ahead of time and stick to it.
    If two years of intermittent lockdowns is your limit, lock that number in, start deciding what you’re going to do once we get there.
    If depriving you of work unless vaccinated is your line in the sand, lock it in and start deciding on a plan for when that happens.
    If watching the coppers head kick one more lockdown protestor is your line, lock it in and decide on actions.
    If we just let it run on without a clear line, we’ll end up in three years time with the joint utterly destroyed.
    Furthermore:
    Maybe a movement can start that says something like: Listen, you dismal fuckers, you have till Christmas, if you haven’t figured it out by then, you’re finished. We’re all out at that point.


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  69. ikamatua says:

    Stopping people going for a stroll would definitely be over my personal line.


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  71. William the Conjuror says:

    Latham just lost a tonne of votes.

    Latham doesn’t give a rat’s clacker about the voters. He’s a Legislative Council 8 year timeserver who doesn’t need to face an election until 2028. His utterances should be totally ignored.


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  72. Bar Beach Swimmer says:

    Stan29 @ 2:59
    Of course, paracetamol relieves pain for millions and modern medicine cures vastly more people than it kills. So, we judge, on balance, the rewards of both outweigh the risks. This view permeates everything we do from driving cars to going to the beach

    That perspective is so “yesterday.” Now, no-one is allowed to do anything without the state (as I typed that it came out as stasi) sanctioning it first.

    And on the registering with the police of a friend; I would rather stay on my own than submit myself to that humiliation.


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  73. Dot says:

    * I doubt they would make stuff up. *

    LOL

    You are a Quiet Weapon for Silent Wars.


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  74. William the Conjuror says:

    Bugger. I gave Latham the timeserver an extra year. The next election he faces is in March 2027.


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  75. kaysee says:

    It is now two weeks since Cat3 came into existence. I have been catching up with the comments on the threads, in this new version. While many are informative and worth reading (same as Cat2), there are some comments and handles here that provide an insight into the commenters.

    Here are two scenarios.

    One

    Cat2 shut down on August 1 and there were some spin off sites to go to, if one should so choose. But there is nothing similar to what we enjoyed, previously. Those of us who used to come to the blog have nowhere to go to, unless we want the alternative sites.

    Sometime in the future, there will be a Cat3 – a perfect blog with all the bells and whistles, perfect moderation, perfectly free of swamp creatures.

    But by then, many will have given up and will not know how to find their way to the blog, whenever and wherever it appears. In the meantime, we have nothing. We have to get used to being without the Cat blog, the same way we did last year. But that was just one weekend.

    Two

    We have a site to come in to that is similar to the last one. We got a link for the new site before the old one closed, so all those following the Final Forum would have received the address for their new chat room. We have not been left out in the cold, thinking it is all over, and having no idea of what will happen next.

    It is a work-in-progress blog where we have been able to continue a seamless shift from the previous (Cat2) to a new one (Cat3). It is not perfect. It has all kinds of bugs and flaws. But we have these threads and forums to keep chatting, sharing, discussing and debating. And we can find a way to navigate through the threads — scrolling, skimming or stopping to read, depending on the sense we possess.

    We have this blog because someone worked quickly to put it together, at short notice. Someone who has other commitments, but still made the time to let us have this discussion area. There was a thread Site Fixes and a Contact page for anyone to post feedback, and some have done so. While the bugs are being fixed, the site is still (imperfectly) functional and we can keep coming in each day to read and comment.

    If we recognise this, we will be grateful and patient. And do our bit to help maintain the standards of the blog, not drag it down.


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  76. Boambee John says:

    Salvatore

    Late June.


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  77. C.L. says:

    Odd that I’m not hearing news of Ben Roberts-Smith’s totally straight Afghan accusers having been killed by the Taliban.

    🤔

    The state of this country. The sheer state of it. The decorated terror of these animals is to be prosecuted for killing them. Which was his job.


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  78. Bar Beach Swimmer says:

    Is there a collective noun for rectum?
    A parliament of rectums?
    A cabinet of rectums

    Muddy, don’t over think it (h/t that milk ad).

    Arseholes, is what you’re looking for.


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  79. Franx says:

    Ikamatua
    The ‘personal limits’ need an enabling retrospectivity clause.


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  80. Boambee John says:

    ikamatua says:
    August 14, 2021 at 5:23 pm
    Stopping people going for a stroll would definitely be over my personal line.

    For us elderly Boomers, walking (preferably in deep sand or up a hill) is a major form of exercise. Years ago, I was given medical advice to walk 40 minutes a day if weather permits. I intend to follow that advice.


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  81. egg_ says:

    Seven weeks into this NSW disaster, Berejiklian is only starting to do the Hard Policing needed in places like Merrylands, Guildford and Auburn

    —————————————-

    Latho’s definitely been reading the Fat Pizza scripts.

    New series now premiering on 7Mate.

    Police now targetting: Western Suburbs w0gs.


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  82. Boambee John says:

    Bar Beach Swimmer says:
    August 14, 2021 at 5:34 pm
    Is there a collective noun for rectum?
    A parliament of rectums?
    A cabinet of rectums

    Muddy, don’t over think it (h/t that milk ad).

    Arseholes, is what you’re looking for.

    Having started this question, let me finish it: 👍😂✔


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  83. Lyingdespicalscumrosie says:

    I still think getting a vaccine reduces someone’s risk of dying from covid.

    I haven’t seen anything presented here or anywhere else to make me think otherwise.

    That has nothing to do with the Australian government turning itself inside out trying make Australia covid zero.


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  84. Bar Beach Swimmer says:

    kaysee, #2 it is. The only way to improve on the standard is to keep using the report comment button when abuse of one particular group of people occurs.

    Adam’s done a great job to keep us all going.

    I’m sure that over time we’ll be back to where we were. As you’ve noted, The Cat is worth is it and now more than ever.


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  85. Carpe Jugulum says:

    As a quick break from the Covid hysteria, a quaint Oz and US thing

    I give you Peter Falk accepting an Emmy for his work as Colombo, what a great sense of humour.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8TUSsqWCTM

    Don’t thank me, i’m a people person, it’s what i do.


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  86. Gab says:

    ”I still think getting a vaccine reduces someone’s risk of dying from covid.”

    You have that on medical authority? You’ve read the trials? Seen the success rates of an independent double-blind long-term study? Read about them anywhere credible?

    No. But you go ahead and ”think” away.


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  87. egg_ says:

    At last, a proper lockdown in NSW with proper enforcement.

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    Has Grigs stocked upon screen wipes?


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  88. Bar Beach Swimmer says:

    Boambee John says:
    August 14, 2021 at 5:42 pm

    BJ, I used to be known for butter not melting in my mouth; I think I’ve been here too long! 😁


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  89. ikamatua says:

    I think I’m about two months more of this utter bullshit away from recommending all our “journalists”, politicians and public health wankers get an arsefull of rosellas inserted with extreme prejudice.


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  90. Rabz says:

    The state of this stupid stupid country. The sheer state of it.

    It is indeed monstrous, CL. These are insane times. Bass ackwards does not even come close to describing it.

    An unrelenting existential nightmare more like.

    There is no coming back from this bizarre insanity. I had a lengthy argument with my older brother this arvo about why all this shit is so wrong. He’s an aged personage of the boomer persuasion, so his hooves were anchored tight.

    He hates Beryl G as much as I do, but for entirely different reasons.

    On a purely selfish note (for a change) I just want my old life back. Which at this point, means I’ll have to go out there and forcibly reclaim it. No one will do it for me and nor should they be expected to.

    We all will, or it’s off to the labour camps and then the ovens.

    Is that a fate you want, peoples? A fate you want for your children and grand children?


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  91. egg_ says:

    I still think getting a vaccine reduces someone’s risk of dying from covid.

    ———————————-

    Dependent on:

    age?
    gender?
    pregnant?
    planning a family?
    underlying health issues?


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  92. ikamatua says:

    I declare October 14th “Rosella Day”. The day when if this lot hasn’t figured it out we grab them, bend them over and insert native Australian birdlife up there rectums past the point of maximum capacity.


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  93. ikamatua says:

    Obviously I mean “their rectums”.
    “there rectums” is a day in Bendigo.


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