An endless, no holds barred fight between two commenters that got out of hand. First the OT, then other threads as the fight continued into the virtual carpark. Eventually Sinc had had enough and closed the entire site for about four days.
Due to some other commitments, I missed the entire contretemps.
Finished spray painting hercus milling machine out doors, in a rare break in Melbourne’s shit weather, all packed up when I realised I’d missed two small parts! Doh!
Now 3D printing some trial door catches for a Morris Van that old bloke in workshop next door is working on. Someone had “fixed” them by beating them with a hammer so need to get the geometry sorted before machining them out of steel.
The cyber symposium in South Dakota starts overnight. It runs for 3 days. The first day will examine 25 states. Working groups will then branch off to further prosecute the evidence.
Same again day two.
Day three, wrap up….
if not for the fact that the four of you have caused serious harm to someone I happen to care deeply about.
No-one much cares for your excessive displays of insincere hand-patting in an attempt to get your end away.
As for damage done.
Isn’t that entirely down to the father’s misbehaviour and her being unable to deal with that?
Not that I blame her, but let’s not deflect blame to a convenient target. It seems to me that you might be manipulating a vulnerable person to further some petty vendetta.
Gee Sky has made for depressing listening tonight. The leader of the Queensland opposition was on Bolt, chastising Christensen for stating the bleeding obvious about face nappies and schlockdowns, with Bolt in furious agreement.
Now listening to that trio of increasingly unhinged lunatics destroying NSW on Jones’. Depressing and infuriating, especially after 53 days in schlockdown (not that I’m counting).
Bar Beach Swimmer says:
August 10, 2021 at 6:50 pm
She said that she left Fox because there was an avoidance of putting out any facts that might undermine promotion of the vaccine. To which Mccullough replied that is called Entrusted News Initiative…
Entrusted News Initiative, that’s interesting, I was just watching Steve Tickler’s 6:34pm video link about the vaccine passport company “Entrust.”
No point reading any online MSM, thru paywalls or otherwise.
It’s wall-to-wall COVID porn. Boring, repetitive trash put out by grammatically illiterate activist interns, interspersed with trite banalities of no real consequence.
One is expected to believe that news-worthy events have simply stopped happening in the last 18 months, in a Gaian globally-aware deference to the virus, just like the magic reductions in non-COVID deaths and morbidities.
Pushing a narrative and toeing the political line every day must be the worst job in the World. How can any self-respecting ape-descendant do this?
As an ethical, responsible citizen I fervently hope for early dementia, double incontinence and destitution for all these hacks and their managers.
Mrs TE’s just been polled by a phone company. Amongst others, they asked for six things the PM should do straight away.
She did well. Burnt up the line about submarines, PC, taking a Covid lead, etc etc.
Also a question along the lines of “all big businesses support a referendum to modify the constitution for aboriginal stuff”. Do you therefore support it.
Professor Higgins says:
August 10, 2021 at 8:11 pm
calli at 7:49.
I would trust your version over others.
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Yes Calli.
Listen to what uncle etc etc etc says – there is no need for you to go check for yourself.
Uncle etc etc etc is here to tell you what to think, so you don’t have to do it.
He excels in this, with constant backup from Uncle Knuckles and Auntie Nota.
Although Uncle Nick seems to have dropped off the radar recently.
The leader of the Queensland opposition was on Bolt, chastising Christensen for stating the bleeding obvious about face nappies and schlockdowns, with Bolt in furious agreement.
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Heh…Palaszczuk must have been copying him in on her polling.
From the “Australian.” The lunatics are running the asylum…
“Sending a smiley face? Make sure you know what you’re saying
By Aiyana Ishmael
Dow Jones
17 minutes ago August 10, 2021
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A smiley face isn’t always just a smiley face. Behind the yellow, wide-eyed emoji’s grin lurks an intergenerational minefield.
The ubiquitous emoji means happy, good job or any number of other positive sentiments to most people over about age 30. But for many teens and 20-somethings, a smiley face popping up in a text or email is seen as patronising or passive-aggressive.
Hafeezat Bishi, 21, started an internship at a Brooklyn digital media firm and was taken aback when co-workers greeted her with a bright smiley face. For Ms Bishi, the welcome didn’t seem warm but dismissive. She sees the image as conveying a kind of side-eye smile, not a genuine one.
“I had to remember they are older, because I use it sarcastically,” Ms Bishi said of her new co-workers. “There are so many emojis, and Gen Z can never take things in a simple manner.”
The communication confusion doesn’t end with the smiley face: People of different ages take different meanings from lots of the little drawings that substitute for words in so many texts and emails.
The rise of emoji use at work, such as between remote teams during the pandemic, has created more misunderstanding than ever, said Erica Dhawan, the author of Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance. People over 30 generally use emojis to convey what the images always did, she said, while younger “digital natives” might ascribe sarcastic meanings to them, or use them as shorthand for an entirely different thought.
The skull and crossbones means death or hazard to many adults. Many younger people say that to them it signifies laughing extremely hard — as in “I’m laughing so hard, I’m dying.” Since graduating from the University of Michigan in 2020, Ranganath Kathawate, 21, has spent a lot of time texting with his mum and younger brother. As their pandemic text chains got more active, he says, a disconnect soon was evident.
“Why did you send the crown emoji when your brother sent his test scores?” he says his Gen X mother wanted to know. He explained that since the crown signifies a king, which is positive, it meant his brother was doing well.
His mother, Gayatri Kathawate, 53, said that emojis as used by her sons’ generation are a whole new language and one she misinterprets all the time.
Ms Kathawate said she is more likely to just pick up the phone, which cuts down on confusion. “But the emojis are like, ‘Huh? What does that mean?’ ”
Rabz, had high hopes for Chrisifulli as he did well on the Townsville City Council. However he has disappointed at every point. Young’s husband connections, Daddy Palace”chook”s conflict of interest, “Dr” Miles brain-dead drivel… Where have the opposition been?
My work as much as I’d love to stay here is about to lead me back to Queensland to live again, Dave “the kid.” I wouldn’t put you on my ballot in a heartbeat at the moment. Grow a spine, get amongst it FFS…
They were teasing Lizzie about something or other to do with scented candles and mercy visits to family. It went on for a few days. The words Lese Majesté seemed to be the touch paper.
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There were some pretty nasty comments to lizzie at that time. I seem to remember Leigh Lowe and Nick, I think?
One thing I remember saying to Ellie. She was very critical of Cardinal Pell but had the grace to read the decisions and publically admit she was wrong, and I complimented her for it.
Uh oh. I appear to be under some form of mind control.
Cut that out, professor! I won’t listen I tells ya!
Controlling the minds of the wymminses of the species is not my strong suit.
Funny that.
You post an account.
I say “I accept your version”.
Somehow that is me controlling you.
That is some super-power!
I’m not criticising, just saying it was after the whole scented candle episode*
*Only the cat could have a war erupt with scented candles in the thick of things
candy says:
August 10, 2021 at 8:39 pm
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You are remembering correctly, Candy. As I said, Ellie wasn’t even online at the time. It was only later when the Cat got reinstated that they started blaming Ellie for the lockout.
If memory serves it started when Ellie, unlike most of the cowards here, had actually attended an Anzac Day Dawn Service. Struth, who had been rallying for people to attend, had been mocking etc etc and Knuckles for their multitude of excuses as to why they hadn’t.
The Gang of Four – as appropriately named by Cassie – had no hope of denting Struth’s ego, so they turned their attention to attacking Ellie as the weakest link. Eventually, over time, the lockout became all Ellie’s fault.
Professor, the best part of rocinante’s “story” is that all Cats have seen Ellie in action both here and at the old forum and can see through it.
From what I could tell, Sinc took a protective stance with her.
Whether that was helpful, who would know.
One thing is for sure.
In the big wide world of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and blogs there are no guardian angels.
If she is genuinely on the edge, she would be well served to avoid that world, except within a very closed private social media group.
And keep her guard up against those who would manipulate her.
Worth a rerun in view of the p1ssweak kids’ recent behaviour, some of whom appear to now be wearing socks:
Leigh Lowe
#3421643, posted on April 20, 2020 at 11:08 pm
DrBeauGan
#3421629, posted on April 20, 2020 at 10:54 pm
I am not aware of anyone here being party to fixing a jury.
…
I didn’t say that.
You kind of did.
But whilst we are on your subject of “blind tribalism” my critiques of ABC judicial fixing go back 20 years, on this forum and others, long before witness J started making shit up.
So, yeah, tribal.
I have you pegged BG.
If you think the relatively mild take-down of the Cruise Queen was something … I can do better.
Over to you.
’tis good to have a hero, who today had 300,000 people from the Northern Rivers out of work, not at school, locked up down and all around, anxious about paying the rent or their bookie – a hero who just does stuff because he can. Ho, ho, ho.
FMD how can anyone be that ignorant?
It was the GOVERNMENT who locked everyone down Mick. Not a taxi driver.
George Christensen condemned by Parliament for spreading COVID-19 misinformation
Here is the misinformation:
In a brief speech to Parliament just before Question Time, Mr Christensen called for an end to measures such as masks and lockdowns, arguing they did not work.
“Our posturing politicians, many over there, the sensationalist media elite and the dictatorial medical bureaucrats need to recognise these facts and stop spreading fear,” he said.
“COVID-19 is going to be with us forever, just like the flu. And just like the flu, we will have to live with it, not in constant fear of it. Some people will catch it, some people will tragically die from it. That’s inevitable and we have to accept it.
“Open society back up, restore our freedoms, end this madness.”
Needless to say, SloMo and Albo weren’t happy. They condemned him.
‘You are remembering correctly, Candy. As I said, Ellie wasn’t even online at the time. It was only later when the Cat got reinstated that they started blaming Ellie for the lockout.’
***
That lockout didn’t last long and Sinclair upon reopening the Cat highlighted a post from Mick of Gold Coast as something that he didn’t like. But the lockdown happened after a few days of a stoush between Egg and Arky. It could have been more than one reason that contributed to the decision to give the Cat a breather in 2020.
I’ve just been reading back…..enough, enough, enough.
Firstly, I recall March and April 2020 as being a rather brutal time on the Cat….it must have been due to the onset of Covidentia. My recollection, which is pretty clear, is that the blog was shut down by Sinc in late April 2020, from Friday night to Monday morning, I remember going to a relative’s place on the Friday night for Shabbat dinner and I came back, logged on and made a comment on another thread and then the site was shut down. Why? Because there was a nasty blog fight between two people….I won’t name them because it’s in the past and it is irrelevant. I remember the fight getting very unpleasant and out of hand. The shutdown of the blog had absolutely nothing to do with Ellie. Prior to the shit-fight between the two bloggers, there was also a very nasty and unpleasant pile on of Lizzie…just before Lizzie went on her cruise. I referred to those who “piled on” Lizzie as a gang of four…..which they were…it was unpleasant. Som
I was mostly scrolling both, like I do you most of the time.
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An endless, no holds barred fight between two commenters that got out of hand. First the OT, then other threads as the fight continued into the virtual carpark. Eventually Sinc had had enough and closed the entire site for about four days.
Due to some other commitments, I missed the entire contretemps.
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Finished spray painting hercus milling machine out doors, in a rare break in Melbourne’s shit weather, all packed up when I realised I’d missed two small parts! Doh!
Now 3D printing some trial door catches for a Morris Van that old bloke in workshop next door is working on. Someone had “fixed” them by beating them with a hammer so need to get the geometry sorted before machining them out of steel.
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The cyber symposium in South Dakota starts overnight. It runs for 3 days. The first day will examine 25 states. Working groups will then branch off to further prosecute the evidence.
Same again day two.
Day three, wrap up….
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No-one much cares for your excessive displays of insincere hand-patting in an attempt to get your end away.
As for damage done.
Isn’t that entirely down to the father’s misbehaviour and her being unable to deal with that?
Not that I blame her, but let’s not deflect blame to a convenient target. It seems to me that you might be manipulating a vulnerable person to further some petty vendetta.
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A flock of birds.
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4/4/21.
that should have been 4/8/21
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calli at 7:49.
I would trust your version over others.
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Gee Sky has made for depressing listening tonight. The leader of the Queensland opposition was on Bolt, chastising Christensen for stating the bleeding obvious about face nappies and schlockdowns, with Bolt in furious agreement.
Now listening to that trio of increasingly unhinged lunatics destroying NSW on Jones’. Depressing and infuriating, especially after 53 days in schlockdown (not that I’m counting).
Oh grate – Barilaro. Time for the off switch.
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Scroll alert.
Fresh vision from the Mach Loop, Wales. 4:12
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Grim Reapers 493rd squadron, RAF Lakenheath hitting the Mach Loop in their F15C’s.
MACH LOOP SUMMER REAPERS 4K
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Calli i wasn’t even involved in the teasing.
Tim Neilson made *that * commitment post conflict.
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I can give you a real-time blow-by-blow commentary if you like.
It is really quite interesting.
No really.
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Bar Beach Swimmer says:
August 10, 2021 at 6:50 pm
She said that she left Fox because there was an avoidance of putting out any facts that might undermine promotion of the vaccine. To which Mccullough replied that is called Entrusted News Initiative…
Entrusted News Initiative, that’s interesting, I was just watching Steve Tickler’s 6:34pm video link about the vaccine passport company “Entrust.”
I wonder if there’s a connection between the two.
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No point reading any online MSM, thru paywalls or otherwise.
It’s wall-to-wall COVID porn. Boring, repetitive trash put out by grammatically illiterate activist interns, interspersed with trite banalities of no real consequence.
One is expected to believe that news-worthy events have simply stopped happening in the last 18 months, in a Gaian globally-aware deference to the virus, just like the magic reductions in non-COVID deaths and morbidities.
Pushing a narrative and toeing the political line every day must be the worst job in the World. How can any self-respecting ape-descendant do this?
As an ethical, responsible citizen I fervently hope for early dementia, double incontinence and destitution for all these hacks and their managers.
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No need Perfesser, Calli seems to have described events in sufficient detail.
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I refuse to watch it.
I am not kidding.
It will drive you fucking crazy if you watch and listen to “news” and current affairs all day.
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Mrs TE’s just been polled by a phone company. Amongst others, they asked for six things the PM should do straight away.
She did well. Burnt up the line about submarines, PC, taking a Covid lead, etc etc.
Also a question along the lines of “all big businesses support a referendum to modify the constitution for aboriginal stuff”. Do you therefore support it.
Talk about a leading question. But no.
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The media are filth. They prove this everyday. Frank Sinatra was right.
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Professor Higgins says:
August 10, 2021 at 8:11 pm
calli at 7:49.
I would trust your version over others.
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Yes Calli.
Listen to what uncle etc etc etc says – there is no need for you to go check for yourself.
Uncle etc etc etc is here to tell you what to think, so you don’t have to do it.
He excels in this, with constant backup from Uncle Knuckles and Auntie Nota.
Although Uncle Nick seems to have dropped off the radar recently.
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Custard-
is that Cyber Symposium examining 2020 US vote interference?
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You rang?
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Oh, and what’s happening to the AZ Maricopa County Audit?
At this rate it will be reported after the Unified Field Theory has become part of the standard high-school curriculum in Mombasa.
The apparent passivity of the US masses towards the Big Steal is an ominous sign. The Russian Kulaks behaved in similar fashion.
Not good.
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The leader of the Queensland opposition was on Bolt, chastising Christensen for stating the bleeding obvious about face nappies and schlockdowns, with Bolt in furious agreement.
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Heh…Palaszczuk must have been copying him in on her polling.
Say…what’s his name again?
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From the “Australian.” The lunatics are running the asylum…
“Sending a smiley face? Make sure you know what you’re saying
By Aiyana Ishmael
Dow Jones
17 minutes ago August 10, 2021
No Comments
A smiley face isn’t always just a smiley face. Behind the yellow, wide-eyed emoji’s grin lurks an intergenerational minefield.
The ubiquitous emoji means happy, good job or any number of other positive sentiments to most people over about age 30. But for many teens and 20-somethings, a smiley face popping up in a text or email is seen as patronising or passive-aggressive.
Hafeezat Bishi, 21, started an internship at a Brooklyn digital media firm and was taken aback when co-workers greeted her with a bright smiley face. For Ms Bishi, the welcome didn’t seem warm but dismissive. She sees the image as conveying a kind of side-eye smile, not a genuine one.
“I had to remember they are older, because I use it sarcastically,” Ms Bishi said of her new co-workers. “There are so many emojis, and Gen Z can never take things in a simple manner.”
The communication confusion doesn’t end with the smiley face: People of different ages take different meanings from lots of the little drawings that substitute for words in so many texts and emails.
The rise of emoji use at work, such as between remote teams during the pandemic, has created more misunderstanding than ever, said Erica Dhawan, the author of Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance. People over 30 generally use emojis to convey what the images always did, she said, while younger “digital natives” might ascribe sarcastic meanings to them, or use them as shorthand for an entirely different thought.
The skull and crossbones means death or hazard to many adults. Many younger people say that to them it signifies laughing extremely hard — as in “I’m laughing so hard, I’m dying.” Since graduating from the University of Michigan in 2020, Ranganath Kathawate, 21, has spent a lot of time texting with his mum and younger brother. As their pandemic text chains got more active, he says, a disconnect soon was evident.
“Why did you send the crown emoji when your brother sent his test scores?” he says his Gen X mother wanted to know. He explained that since the crown signifies a king, which is positive, it meant his brother was doing well.
His mother, Gayatri Kathawate, 53, said that emojis as used by her sons’ generation are a whole new language and one she misinterprets all the time.
Ms Kathawate said she is more likely to just pick up the phone, which cuts down on confusion. “But the emojis are like, ‘Huh? What does that mean?’ ”
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Are you sure?
It’s riveting stuff.
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Calli was there for the live shows sad sack.
So was I.
Sometimes it’s wise simply to lurk.
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Rabz, had high hopes for Chrisifulli as he did well on the Townsville City Council. However he has disappointed at every point. Young’s husband connections, Daddy Palace”chook”s conflict of interest, “Dr” Miles brain-dead drivel… Where have the opposition been?
My work as much as I’d love to stay here is about to lead me back to Queensland to live again, Dave “the kid.” I wouldn’t put you on my ballot in a heartbeat at the moment. Grow a spine, get amongst it FFS…
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My point CL is that there is a medical expert for everyone.
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OK.
Got nothing but love for you, Rosie – remember that.
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Uh oh. I appear to be under some form of mind control.
Cut that out, professor! I won’t listen I tells ya!
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They were teasing Lizzie about something or other to do with scented candles and mercy visits to family. It went on for a few days. The words Lese Majesté seemed to be the touch paper.
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There were some pretty nasty comments to lizzie at that time. I seem to remember Leigh Lowe and Nick, I think?
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Thank you CL
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rosie says:
August 10, 2021 at 8:13 pm
Calli i wasn’t even involved in the teasing.
Tim Neilson made *that * commitment post conflict.
******
What am I meant to have done?
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cohenite
The fat turd alternative is not on because he is a leftie and simply can’t be trusted.
I have no intention of giving munty access to my email by posting there.
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Also might have been Arky saying some pretty mean stuff about Lizzie? a group of chaps at the time.
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Professor, the best part of rocinante’s “story” is that all Cats have seen Ellie in action both here and at the old forum and can see through it.
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Oh grate – Barilaro. Time for the off switch.
Pity, Jones was on fire quoting from Lomborg about the recently released UN climate bullshit.
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Is there nothing ‘the gang of four ‘ can’t do?
One thing I remember saying to Ellie. She was very critical of Cardinal Pell but had the grace to read the decisions and publically admit she was wrong, and I complimented her for it.
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Controlling the minds of the wymminses of the species is not my strong suit.
Funny that.
You post an account.
I say “I accept your version”.
Somehow that is me controlling you.
That is some super-power!
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Tim
the l*** m******* comment.
I’m not criticising, just saying it was after the whole scented candle episode*
*Only the cat could have a war erupt with scented candles in the thick of things
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candy says:
August 10, 2021 at 8:39 pm
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You are remembering correctly, Candy. As I said, Ellie wasn’t even online at the time. It was only later when the Cat got reinstated that they started blaming Ellie for the lockout.
If memory serves it started when Ellie, unlike most of the cowards here, had actually attended an Anzac Day Dawn Service. Struth, who had been rallying for people to attend, had been mocking etc etc and Knuckles for their multitude of excuses as to why they hadn’t.
The Gang of Four – as appropriately named by Cassie – had no hope of denting Struth’s ego, so they turned their attention to attacking Ellie as the weakest link. Eventually, over time, the lockout became all Ellie’s fault.
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From what I could tell, Sinc took a protective stance with her.
Whether that was helpful, who would know.
One thing is for sure.
In the big wide world of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and blogs there are no guardian angels.
If she is genuinely on the edge, she would be well served to avoid that world, except within a very closed private social media group.
And keep her guard up against those who would manipulate her.
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Emojis don’t care about your feelings
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l*** m*******
???
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TESTIES!
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Does this work? Someone ping me @embritts1
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Worth a rerun in view of the p1ssweak kids’ recent behaviour, some of whom appear to now be wearing socks:
Charming.
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We could always have a dust up over whether or not to use the “good” olive oil.
That’s worthy of a thread closure event.
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FMD how can anyone be that ignorant?
It was the GOVERNMENT who locked everyone down Mick. Not a taxi driver.
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Unusual place for a hook-up, but each to their own I guess.
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All olive oil used should be the best you can get, Calli.
Domestic olive oil is quite good these days
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Oh.
I committed a “wrong olive oil” crime tonight.
“That’s for salads, not for frying”.
Who knew?
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Quick question for the crowd.
Is this census more of an entrapment document this year than ever before?
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Professor, sir, Calli mentioned the offending phrase on the previous page.
I just can’t.
What’s this about *good* olive oil?
I’m offended in advance.
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George Christensen condemned by Parliament for spreading COVID-19 misinformation
Here is the misinformation:
Needless to say, SloMo and Albo weren’t happy. They condemned him.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/george-christensen-condemned-by-parliament-for-spreading-covid-19-misinformation/ar-AAN8ETW?ocid=msedgntp
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‘You are remembering correctly, Candy. As I said, Ellie wasn’t even online at the time. It was only later when the Cat got reinstated that they started blaming Ellie for the lockout.’
***
That lockout didn’t last long and Sinclair upon reopening the Cat highlighted a post from Mick of Gold Coast as something that he didn’t like. But the lockdown happened after a few days of a stoush between Egg and Arky. It could have been more than one reason that contributed to the decision to give the Cat a breather in 2020.
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I’ve just been reading back…..enough, enough, enough.
Firstly, I recall March and April 2020 as being a rather brutal time on the Cat….it must have been due to the onset of Covidentia. My recollection, which is pretty clear, is that the blog was shut down by Sinc in late April 2020, from Friday night to Monday morning, I remember going to a relative’s place on the Friday night for Shabbat dinner and I came back, logged on and made a comment on another thread and then the site was shut down. Why? Because there was a nasty blog fight between two people….I won’t name them because it’s in the past and it is irrelevant. I remember the fight getting very unpleasant and out of hand. The shutdown of the blog had absolutely nothing to do with Ellie. Prior to the shit-fight between the two bloggers, there was also a very nasty and unpleasant pile on of Lizzie…just before Lizzie went on her cruise. I referred to those who “piled on” Lizzie as a gang of four…..which they were…it was unpleasant. Som