Open Thread – Thursday 5 August 2021

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  1. rickw says:

    Sturgis motorcycle rally biggest in years.

    Imagine what an Australian Sturgis would look like, Vikpol and NSWpol beating the shit out of one bloke on a Vespa.


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  2. Knuckle Dragger says:

    jupes,

    Yep.

    I didn’t know about graaping until just now, but certainly picked up on the relative distance and seating positions (ie, height) between the two for that excruciating performance.


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  3. Knuckle Dragger says:

    Look at this. Just fucking look at it. Pancreatic cancer where your final weeks are uncontrolled by pain medication will hopefully find you, Higgins. The Hun:

    A former Victorian magistrate who was engaged to a court clerk 45 years his junior has broken his silence on their controversial relationship almost two years after her death.

    Rodney Higgins, 71, defended his decision to claim Ashleigh Petrie’s $180,000 superannuation payout even though she had bequeathed the money to her mother.

    Ms Petrie was 23 years old when she died after running in front of a car in Metung in October 2019. The incident followed media reports about the couple’s engagement.

    Speaking to A Current Affair on Monday, Mr Higgins claimed authorities believed he deserved 100 per cent of Ms Petrie’s death benefit.

    Mr Higgins told the program he believed his and Ms Petrie’s seven-month relationship had been true love.

    Elderly manipulator grooms vulnerable mentally ill younger woman. Gets so far into her head that she dies. Elderly manipulator then moves straight back in with the previous victim while taking much younger woman’s cash, which was intended to go elsewhere.

    Elderly manipulator then deflects blame. Where have I seen that pattern before?


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  4. calli says:

    Thanks for the ‘toons Tom. And your perseverance in getting them to us despite lack of buttons.

    Yes, Rowe nails the situation. But Ramirez! If he troubled to read the news from Israel the patient’s T-shirt might say something else entirely. Loved Leak’s Bunnings – syringes should have been Liquid Nails size.

    The meerkat motorcyclist made an excellent point last night, and something that never occurred to me – imagine being Sinc and on the receiving end of a barrage of emails from the resident entitlistas. Explains the chrome dome. Adam’s Inbox must be at capacity by now.


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  5. calli says:

    Oh, and as Mater points out – be careful of the Fields of Peril. They are very alluring.

    😀


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  6. calli says:

    On MarkA’s Scale of Cat – I’d like to be a 3 but the mirror tells me I’m a 5.

    Also, thanks Will for the Dilberts.

    And that’s my morning quota of gratitude exhausted. Another top up around lunchtime.


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  7. Professor Higgins says:

    Knuckle Dragger says:

    August 10, 2021 at 7:10 am

    Look at this. Just fucking look at it. Pancreatic cancer where your final weeks are uncontrolled by pain medication will hopefully find you, Higgins. 

    You talkin’ to me?


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  8. Dot says:

    *Gets so far into her head that she dies.*

    The shit thing he dead was contest the will, it should have been thrown out of court.

    What you suggest is unmanly woo.

    I know a few gals that buy healing crystals. I suggest you get in touch.

    Contesting the will was simply greedy. Let’s not kid ourselves. Both parties viewed the relationship as transactional. What would have she got if he tripped over a gutter and broke his neck? I mean, she got inside his chakras? As you would say.

    Why insist predators are old? It was probably a star crossed meeting of lifelong manipulators.


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  9. Dot says:

    …and anudder ting.

    Why assume the elderly guy is the manipulator otherwise?

    I thought cops and hot dog salesman like John McLaine had instinct, goddamit.

    Maybe you were more Frank from Samurai Cop.

    Tut tut.


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  10. Shy Ted says:

    I for one welcome our new robot overlords. Especially at meal times.
    https://twitter.com/technologey_/status/1424312834159124484


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  11. Shy Ted says:

    The Bell Tower Times’ is turning out some funny stuff.
    Seems quite WA-centric.
    https://www.thebelltowertimes.com/the-tesla-owner/


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  12. Tom says:

    Anyone know what Taylor Walker actually said?

    Nope. We’re not allowed to know. Instead we get a Chinese Communist Party-style “self-criticism” from Walker that the CCP used to dole out to foreigners in exchange for their freedom.

    Political correctness — more accurately, language fascism — has turned us into infantised serfs who must recite — and keep reciting — what the government tells us to say.


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  13. Dot says:

    Adam

    Please nuke Bird.

    He’s like a 6 ft tall budgie shih tzu puppy hybrid.

    Spraying the joint with his putrid mess from his infernal cloacca and having no shame in lapping it up.

    Disgusting filth doesn’t even begin to describe some of the insane inanities he has subjected us to.


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  14. struth says:

    Just to be clear again.
    I support and agree with all that Bosi says.
    He just lost his cool and swore and talked about pedos.
    I totally understand where he is coming from but if you are the head of a political party, no matter how disappointing Australians prove to be, you just can’t do that.
    A real shame but I think the man is a great bloke but his Mediterranean emotions got the better of him.
    Australians would make a saint swear.


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  15. Tom says:

    Format fail. Sorry, I did my best with the manual coding. We are hostage to those with HTML skills.


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  16. Bruce of Newcastle says:

    Oodles of climate squawking today, even on sites like the Daily Telegraph and Sky News Australia. But the data I see still shows nothing much is happening – the real world is trending sideways and has done so all this new century. Go figure.


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  17. Gilas says:

    AdamD, I second Dot’s request.

    The socks truly went to town.
    Last night’s entries are a classic display of obsession and well into derangement.
    Dangerous times for this blog.


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  18. Ruprecht says:

    Just to be clear again.
    I support and agree with all that Bosi says.
    He just lost his cool and swore and talked about pedos.

    ————————————————————————————————-

    OK………..


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  19. Diogenes says:

    Contesting the will was simply greedy.

    Not defending him, it wasn’t the will, but her super death benefit, but as her ‘partner’ he had every right. It seems she had access to his accounts and was raiding them to give mommy some money (amount not stated). In earlier accounts he said he wanted some of her ashes and her mother refused, so he was going the money route to get mommy to talk to him.


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  20. Knuckle Dragger says:

    ‘You talkin’ to me?’

    Who wants to know? My Kung Fu is strong.


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  21. Farmer Gez says:

    The IPPC (Wuhan Division) releases its super scary guesses for the climate apocalypse.
    Did you know that the seas levels around Australia and NZ are rising faster than other parts of the world?
    Be amazed, be alarmed, don’t think-how?
    No point getting that second jab, learn to swim instead.


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  22. Mother Lode says:

    Looks like Tom is getting back into the swing of things.

    Is there a trick to getting the Name and Email fields to auto-populate? Or is that something planned later down the line?


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  23. min says:

    Thanks Tom and lame pics good to start the day with a laugh ,however I do wonder what those big boob women ,often with well rounded buttocks will look like at 50 . Not so appealing I think Fellas I’d be looking at their mothers if I were thinking of marrying them .
    BTW Savonarola, I have not noted your name here before so no bonfire of the vanities here please


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  24. Knuckle Dragger says:

    Dot:

    Contesting the will was flinging the curtains open, and openly giving a giant middle finger to the young woman’s family.

    Sure the relationship was transactional, but only to the point a damaged 23 year old could make it. This is not a Gabi Grecko/Geoff Edelsten situation. Her body wasn’t even cold when Higgins (magistrate, not professor) went straight back to the ex and started composing his claim for her super.

    If I lived anywhere near Higgins (Nakatomi Tower, hopefully) I’d scrawl the following on his front door in lipstick:

    ‘Now I have a machine gun. Ho ho ho.’


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  25. Mother Lode says:

    Is Savonarola bird?

    It is not just the ridiculous claims, but the fevered rate that he must expel them into the outside world lest his head explode.

    Must be like trying to hold back a deluge with a butter knife. I mean, even a teaspoon could have some infinitesimally small effect.


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  26. mh says:

    Sydney man who took Covid to Byron ‘uncooperative’
    The man at the centre of the Northern Rivers lockdown is said to ‘not believe’ in virus and has been accused of being ‘evasive’.
    ***
    He’s doing everything right so far.


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  27. Dot says:

    Well there you go folks.

    Grimshaw J is not a leading authority on estate planning law.


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  28. Ruprecht says:

    KD, he dated her for 7 months. If that’s the standard for someone inheriting your hard earned, most guys will be uttering the old crow call of ‘fark’, knowing anything they can do, others can do better. It’s not a great precedent.


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  29. min says:

    ABC have put out a code of ethics? or rules re high risk profiles and Twitter . Don’t be naughty but nothing said about what would happen if you disobey the rules. Typical, sack the lot .


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  30. Dot says:

    If Diogenes is correct, she nominated him as a beneficiary on her superannuation.

    Plus she was basically stealing money for her mother.

    Big justice, if true.


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  31. Dot says:

    Six months with indicia of cohabitation is enough to lose half of your Alfa Romeo.


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  32. lotocoti says:

    Oodles of climate squawking today…

    Going big with the IPCCs latest attempt to reclaim
    the catastrophe crown smacks of ‘Rona fatigue.


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  33. Bruce of Newcastle says:

    Is there a trick to getting the Name and Email fields to auto-populate?

    ML – The browser usually will have an option to remember autofill form data. In Brave it’s under Settings-Privacy & Security-Clear Browsing Data-Autofill Form Data. Uncheck the box and hit “save” and it will then remember what you filled in so you only have to pick it from a short list.

    I don’t know what you do on a phone or a pad or in other browsers.


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  34. Bruce of Newcastle says:

    Oops, blockquote fail!


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  35. srr says:

    **OnlyFans Models Can’t Find Love**

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GxnawsazZ0

    Aug 7, 2021
    **The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters**


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  36. srr says:

    **The British Islamic Pride Police**

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

    Aug 10, 2021
    **The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters**


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  37. Crossie says:

    It’s Remarkable says:
    August 9, 2021 at 1:13 pm
    Just a question:

    When one gets tested, and returns a positive result, is there any treatment recommended or do you merely get told to stay home and isolate.
    If the latter, then this is madness, given there are at least two useful treatments available for early stage virus infection.
    You might think this is all intended to prolong the virus and fear. And you might be right.

    ——————–

    I also thought that the “cases” would be under medical supervision and if not then it’s obviously a case of medical negligence, particularly in the cases of the 27 year old who died and the twin removalists’ mother.


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  38. Dot says:

    This blog needs a disclaimer that *YOU (if any, AND THE PUBLIC AUTHORITY THAT PAYS YOUR SALARY)* are liable for your comments.

    Epstein MIGHT be “mainstream”, but accusing public figures without proof, just association is real bollocks, suspicious dayglo level burrowing work.


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  39. srr says:

    FlyingPigs says:
    August 10, 2021 at 1:14 am
    ___________

    Yep and we can only add that it’s been the case for a very long time, but all those giving early warning were fobbed off as “disgruntled ex-whatevers” or “Conspiracy Theorists”.


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  40. Crossie says:

    Ruprecht says:
    August 10, 2021 at 8:35 am
    KD, he dated her for 7 months. If that’s the standard for someone inheriting your hard earned, most guys will be uttering the old crow call of ‘fark’, knowing anything they can do, others can do better. It’s not a great precedent.

    ———————–

    I know of another case where the guy and the woman were not even together for almost a year at the time of his death, but because they were together for about a year at some point she got $100k from his estate.


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  41. Mother Lode says:

    I love Ramirez drawing style, but he often indulges ‘da narrative’ too much.

    It is not surprising that the elites who have walked themselves into a corner over Covid are resorting to such scurrilous misdirection – painting people wary of this vaccine as anti-vaxxers (which has always referred to and currently connotes people who distrust all vaccines on quasi-scientific principle).

    But to look at the people around you and not see that this is a misdirect, and instead to play along with people who are content to make everyone else take risks so they can paper over their own bungling.

    Margolis and Cox have a brutally honest take on Michelle Obama. Holding the cake is a nice touch. It is like those photos taken a split second before something happens but in which pregnant instant you intuitively ‘see’ the event happening – that cake in Michelle Obama’s hands, you can already ‘see’ the mouth shooting down like an extensible organ and snatching it whole off the plate.


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  42. Dot says:

    “If ASIO belonged to us they could be setting up now to bump off the heads of the vaccine companies and various dynastic bankers right away.”

    Hmmm yes. If we were a true democracy, ASIO would act like the SS, SD, Gestapo and Waffen SS Totenkopf & Sonderkommando regiments.

    You are a mentally ill fuckhead, Graeme Bird.

    ADAM D, please permanently nuke Graeme. I dunno. Block his router settings. This shit is above my pay grade.

    Ultimately, you need a restraining order, and if you disobey that, a mental ‘elf order.


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  43. mh says:

    ‘I love Ramirez drawing style, but he often indulges ‘da narrative’ too much.’
    ***
    No, it’s not the ‘narrative’. If you don’t wear a mask you will die.
    Everyone knows this.


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  44. Mother Lode says:

    Apparently Britney Spears has converted to Catholicism.

    Pity she joined just at the moment the current Pope is trying to destroy it.


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  45. H B Bear says:

    ALPBC reporter describes the death of 90yo woman as tragic. She could have used another descriptor – foreseeable and inevitable.

    Fair dinkum we are never going to get out of this at this rate.


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  46. mh says:

    TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami) – The Office of Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that the Florida Board of Education could withhold the salaries of superintendents and school board members who defy the governor’s executive order prohibiting mask mandates.
    Here is the statement released to CBS4:

    “With respect to enforcing any financial consequences for noncompliance of state law regarding these rules and ultimately the rights of parents to make decisions about their children’s education and health care decisions, it would be the goal of the State Board of Education to narrowly tailor any financial consequences to the offense committed. For example, the State Board of Education could move to withhold the salary of the district superintendent or school board members, as a narrowly tailored means to address the decision-makers who led to the violation of law.

    “Education funding is intended to benefit students first and foremost, not systems. The Governor’s priorities are protecting parents’ rights and ensuring that every student has access to a high-quality education that meets their unique needs.”


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  47. mh says:

    ‘ALPBC reporter describes the death of 90yo woman as tragic.’

    What happened? Was she the victim of a violent home invasion?


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  48. Indolent says:

    Fla. Gov. DeSantis Moves To Withhold Paychecks of School Officials Who Implement Mask Mandates –

    https://breaking911.com/breaking-fla-gov-desantis-moves-to-withhold-paychecks-of-school-officials-who-implement-mask-mandates/

    Why don’t we have someone like him here? Punishing the abusers is the ONLY way to fight back.


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  49. Dot says:

    ASIO couldn’t kill anyone let alone get very many pre emotive arrests.

    Intelligence agencies agencies killing people is lawlessness and murder.

    I disavow.


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  50. Sancho Panzer says:

    Very interesting Savonarola.
    But who are these billionaires?


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  51. Old School Conservative says:

    First Stairman Dan proved that his Covid response is polling driven, not health advice driven.
    Now premier Palacechook is forced to reveal that her craven electoral aspirations trump “health advice”.

    Secret polling guides Annastacia Palaszczuk’s pandemic decisions.
    Annastacia Palaszczuk has relied on secretive monthly polling of Queenslanders to help her decide on the scope and duration of Covid-19 restrictions since just after the pandemic began.

    Despite insisting border closures and lockdowns are based solely on health advice, Ms Palaszczuk’s office is receiving “waves” of focus group and polling research intended “to shape the government’s approach” and messaging for its strategy.

    The Australian reported last September, just weeks after the Premier flatly denied her government was polling on Covid-19 restrictions, that Ms Palaszczuk’s office had hired market research and polling company Ipsos Public Affairs to run a “COVID-19 Key Insights Project”. Ms Palaszczuk has since repeatedly refused to ­release the research.
    More at The Australian. Written by Sarah Elks after a right-to-­information request.

    Australians are all being taken for fools and are loving it.
    I hope Alan Jones climbs into this scandal with his usual eloquence.


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  52. Old School Conservative