Open Thread – Thursday 5 August 2021

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  1. Ruprecht says:

    “ As previously stated, the ABC decided to pay Ms Milligan’s costs in this matter, a decision arising from particular and exceptional circumstances.

    Media contact

    Sally Jackson | ABC Communications”

    As a taxpayer, I wonder what the hell they were ?


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  2. MatrixTransform says:

    I’m looking to watch a decent Western filmed in the past 30 years.

    remake of True Grit

    enjoy


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  3. srr says:

    Oh and an Aussie Masterpiece with the masterful hand of Nick Cave –

    The Proposition –

    Trailer
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7V-CW_SUos


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  4. thefrollickingmole says:

    Awesome, here comes 3 months of JC calling everyone cocksucker.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWPcXZJV694

    Mr Wu FTW!


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  5. Timothy Neilson says:

    Rabies or tetanus. Bacon has a law degree but was banned from practising because of her protest methods which were violent and would not go astray in antifa.
    ******
    Actually, she was banned because there was a strong suspicion that she’d been involved in a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, and an unqualified finding of fact in the NSW Court of Appeal that she’d lied to the Court of Appeal about the facts.
    They didn’t even have to consider the violence.
    Re B [1981] 2 NSWLR 372


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  6. srr says:

    OOH and how do I always forget it when when I play this fanpiece to it so often –

    “DEAD MAN” – JOHNNY CASH – “WHEN THE MAN COMES AROUND”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0WfKTJDk-Y

    DEAD MAN (1995)
    Johnny Depp, Billy Bob Thornton,
    Western, Adventure – Music by Neil Young


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  7. Dot says:

    I count this as a western:

    Harsh Times.


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  8. Professor Higgins says:

    Fuck!
    Rothschilds.
    Hitler founded Israel.
    Frollickingmole takes home the Bird bingo prize.


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  9. caveman says:

    “The Salvation” is worth a look at.


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  10. srr says:

    JC says:
    August 11, 2021 at 5:49 pm
    USSR

    You should mention Yeadon was fired by Pfizer several years ago. However, if you did the KGB would execute you.
    _______________

    Why should I? You and your, “INVEST INVEST IN BIOTECH!”, crew always do, then others come out with the rest of the story then you lot bitch some more, and on it goes until some choose to believe you non-expert drug peddlers & other choose to look deeper into the many other reports of fertility being hit by the Jabs.


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  11. Farmer Gez says:

    Grigory M says:
    August 11, 2021 at 5:58 pm
    Unforgiven, Gez – not The Unforgiven
    —————————————————————

    True.
    The Unforgiven is hommus western set in the dusty outer suburbs of Sydney.


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  12. MatrixTransform says:

    much better than I thought it would be … The Ballad of Buster Scruggs


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  13. Bar Beach Swimmer says:

    Carpe:
    Bone Tomahawk (a bit dark, but entertaining

    Carpe, I started watching that – it started off well, but went down the gurgler fairly quickly with the most stupid storyline anyone could think of, and not just for a Western. That’s a 0 out of 5 from me.


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  14. H B Bear says:

    Definitely has a law degree from Monash Bear, …

    Worse than I thought then.


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  15. Rabz:
    “Mole – not to mention Ultimo and Southwank nuked from orbit.
    Just to be sure, of course.”
    ***************************************
    One of the things that made the V2 so terrifying was the noise of the rocket which arrived after the explosion due to the supersonic speed.
    So I hope the kinetic energy “Rods from God” have a little whistle thingy on them to alert the dead to the fact they are just that – dead.


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  16. Speedbox says:

    A rejig of the single bubble, banning trips to beach houses and a heavier ADF presence are among “big changes” to Greater Sydney’s lockdown, with NSW Police given 48 hours to redraft public health orders and get the state back on track.

    “The Police Minister David Elliott and Police Commissioner Mick Fuller briefed the crisis cabinet for the first time in quite a while, only about an hour or so ago,” Nine News’ political editor Chris O’Keefe reports.

    During a “firey meeting” between Health Minister Brad Hazzard and Minister Elliott, it was “decided” that the NSW police force and their legal team “will go away and look at redrafting our public health orders”.

    “Now the reason for that is, the police simply believe that, as it stands right now, the public health order is next to impossible to enforce,” O’Keefe said.

    “It is very difficult for them to hone in on the problem areas and the problem individuals that are causing this lockdown to continue on.”

    According to O’Keefe, people who are going to their second residences (like a beach house) will be banned from doing so, and there’ll be a “big rethink” regarding the single bubble. While it won’t be canned, police are expected to “tweak it” to make it easier to check that people are only coming into contact with their one nominated person.


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  17. srr says:

    Oh and JC, I couldn’t find your quote –

    JC says:
    August 11, 2021 at 5:49 pm
    […] Yeadon was fired by Pfizer several years ago. […]

    But I did find this, that does paint quite a different picture to your repeated smear/borderline libel –

    How 3 Laid Off Employees Turned Pfizer’s Discarded Compounds Into Novartis AG Gold
    Published: Mar 17, 2017
    […]
    Ziarco was born after Pfizer shut down an R&D program in England. Mike Yeadon, who had been with Pfizer’s Sandwich-based program for 17 years, did not want to pursue another job with big pharma after learning his job was ending. Instead, he wanted to launch his own biotech company and develop a therapeutic he had been working on at Pfizer—a drug that was most likely going to be shelved indefinitely.

    In an interview with Forbes, Yeadon, formerly vice president and chief scientific officer of Pfizer’s Allergy and Respiratory Research Unit, discussed the issues of starting a company and seeking capital to develop the Pfizer drug. […]

    https://www.biospace.com/article/how-3-laid-off-employees-turned-pfizer-s-discarded-compounds-into-novartis-ag-gold-/


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  18. H B Bear says:

    The Unforgiven is hommus western set in the dusty outer suburbs of Sydney.

    Who could forget the branch stack scene when they were handing out Liar HTV cards?


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  19. Dot says:

    *So I hope the kinetic energy “Rods from God” have a little whistle thingy on them to alert the dead to the fact they are just that – dead.*

    The only know one thing.

    It is better to be alive.


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  20. Dot says:

    LOL

    The *dead* only know…


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  21. Dot says:

    *California Screaming says:
    August 11, 2021 at 6:17 pm
    The National Socialist party, at least at the top, were zionists. They sponsored all manner of zionist projects. They worked closely with the zionists. Thats just a fact of history*

    Like how Admiral Halsey and Col. Tibbets were pro Japanese.

    Genius.


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  22. Speedbox says:

    According to O’Keefe …..there’ll be a “big rethink” regarding the single bubble. While it won’t be canned, police are expected to “tweak it” to make it easier to check that people are only coming into contact with their one nominated person.

    Tinder and GrindR will be devastated.


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  23. JC says:

    Thanks everyone. Will watch what I haven”t but in the immortal words of Hiden’s press officer “I’ll circle back” to some I’ve seen like 3.10, Tombstone and some others.

    Thanks Rabz, USSR, Matrix, Gez and others

    I recently read that one of the reasons they’re not making westerns anymore is because they’re very expensive to produce and they’re risky because they’re uncertain about audience numbers.


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  24. Rorschach says:

    On the subject of space cowboys

    NASA’s Inspector General says delays in spacesuit development are another factor making a 2024 astronaut landing impossible.

    With $420M spent and another $625M expected, suits won’t be “ready for flight until April 2025 at the earliest.”

    Yes – they say this with a straight face!

    https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1425100482779942936?s=21

    Elon has piped up that SpaceX could do it cheaper… 🙂

    [At this rate Elon would have had people walking on Mars before Artemis gets to the moon… I guess that he – like anyone – is happy to take NASA money. (Noting that there are 27 different companies supplying components for the suits, I’d guess that out of that $Bio the vast majority will be corrupto cash)]

    Quote of the thread:

    Tom Mueller @irocket
    I think we developed Falcon 9 and cargo Dragon for less than $1B

    ElonMusk @elonmusk
    Yeah…


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  25. Baba says:

    Dot, the post war Zionists were socialists. The Nazis were socialists. Join the dots.


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  26. rickw says:

    During a “firey meeting” between Health Minister Brad Hazzard and Minister Elliott, it was “decided” that the NSW police force and their legal team “will go away and look at redrafting our public health orders”.

    Police getting to write the laws in a country is a sure sign you have achieved a AAA shit rating.


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  27. H B Bear says:

    I mean, say what you want about the tenants of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.


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  28. kaysee says:

    If the unvaccinated are responsible for outbreaks, what is the reason for this?

    Covid Outbreak Hits Carnival Cruise Despite Every Guest and Staff Member Being ‘Vaccinated’

    Somewhere near Cozumel in the Caribbean Sea, there’s a cruise ship that had zero unvaccinated people aboard but that still suffered an outbreak of Covid-19. This goes against the narrative that the reason for “breakthrough cases” is due to too many unvaccinated people mingling with those who have taken the experimental injections.

    The Carnival Vista, which departed from Galveston, Texas, on July 31, has issued strict face mask protocols and ordered infected people aboard into isolation. Mainstream media is already busy blowing it off while the cruise company is patting itself on the back for reacting to swiftly.


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  29. Dot says:

    *Baba says:
    August 11, 2021 at 6:29 pm
    Dot, the post war Zionists were socialists. The Nazis were socialists. Join the dots.*

    So was FDR, Thatcher (yes, really) and John Howard.

    Is there anyone who ISN’T a globalist socialist banking tiny hat tribe merchant???!!!


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  30. Rorschach says:

    hey’re not making westerns anymore is because they’re very expensive to produce

    I find that hard to believe!

    How much does an empty paddock and a couple of hayburners cost? You don’t have to build a new planet and exotic aliens like every other movie does now! [And besides – half the sci-fi stuff is stolen western plots anyways!]


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  31. Roger says:

    Police getting to write the laws in a country is a sure sign you have achieved a AAA shit rating.

    ———————-

    The gold standard thereof.


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  32. Salvatore:
    “Correct me where I’m wrong Winston”
    ***************************************
    That’s cool – I was relying on memory but the story was too delightful to pass up.
    I don’t have a problem with being corrected.


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  33. Indolent:
    ““Andrews said the appearance of new ‘mystery’ cases, with no established link to prior infections, remains a “real concern” to state health authorities.”
    ——————————————————
    Has anyone considered that the vaccine is causing the outbreak directly? Of course not, how could that be.
    ———————————
    Looks like that’s happening in Israel and Iceland.


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  34. Roger says:

    Back soon.

    ___________

    There’s no need to hurry…take all the time you want.


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  35. Makka says:

    They aren’t making Westerns because woke. In Wokeworld, there are no goodies or baddies because that flies in the face of inclusion. You can’t have violence against women up on the big screen either so that’s out. Indians… nah, discrimination in Wokeworld won’t allow that either. White maleness … absolutely verboten in Wokeworld.

    The best anti- woke western is Deadwood. The most un-PC show ever made. Brave souls.


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  36. Baba says:

    rickw says:
    August 11, 2021 at 6:30 pm
    Police getting to write the laws in a country is a sure sign you have achieved a AAA shit rating.

    It works ok with gun laws.


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  37. kaysee says:

    NSW Police given 48 hours to redraft public health orders and get the state back on track.

    They could have just handed the task over to a certain shock jock presenter at a certain radio station. That would have achieved immediate results.


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  38. kaysee says:

    Political ad but …..

    I’d love to tell you this is a @GOP
    ad…I’d love to tell you that.


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  39. JC says:

    Ziarco was born after Pfizer shut down an R&D program in England. Mike Yeadon, who had been with Pfizer’s Sandwich-based program for 17 years, did not want to pursue another job with big pharma after learning his job was ending. Instead, he wanted to launch his own biotech company and develop a therapeutic he had been working on at Pfizer—a drug that was most likely going to be shelved indefinitely.

    USSR, what I said about Yeadon was not libel. It was quite accurate and even your own excerpt, which I’ve posted, backs me up. Yeadon’s job was ending. More to the point, Yeadon’s job ended. In other words Yeadon was fired. But, let’s go a little further. You’re suggesting that Yeadon’s startup was immensely successful. So what? How does that negate anything like for instance Yeadon still harboring a grudge against his old firm for treating him badly. To underline line this, the fact that Yeadon was immensely successful with the start-up and pocketed a large pallet of cash could in fact make him even more rabidly antagonistic against his old firm. Thanks for the film ideas, but STFU about this as you have no understanding how humans operate as your aspergers of autism is really bad.


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  40. calli says:

    rickw says:
    August 11, 2021 at 6:30 pm
    During a “firey meeting” between Health Minister Brad Hazzard and Minister Elliott, it was “decided” that the NSW police force and their legal team “will go away and look at redrafting our public health orders”.

    Police getting to write the laws in a country is a sure sign you have achieved a AAA shit rating.

    Yay! Rum Corps!

    Hope the Governor has a nice big gap under the bed. At least she won’t have to pretend to be a woman.

    On second thoughts, she’ll probably be a-okay with the arrangement.


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  41. Roger says:

    In Wokeworld, there are no goodies or baddies because that flies in the face of inclusion.

    ———————-

    On the contrary, nobody today is more obsessed with moral purity than the woke.

    And in their world the bad, even if repentant, are unforgiven and cancelled.

    It is the most graceless of all religions…barring one.


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  42. Rorschach says:

    They aren’t making Westerns because woke.

    Westworld – especially the first series and half – came very close. I thought that these two scenes [the “Paint it Black” scene in Westworld and Shogunworld] were masterpieces…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJs8CQNxKtU

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


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  43. Professor Higgins says:

    California Screaming says:

    August 11, 2021 at 6:34 pm

    JC. Unforgiven of course. Unbelievably good.

    Yes.
    Distributed by Warner Brothers.
    Or the Wonskolaser Brothers as they were known growing up Jewish in Canada.
    The US film industry owes much to the vision and brilliance of Jews like the Warners, Goldwyn and Mayer.
    I’m sure you’ll agree.


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  44. struth says:

    JC, millions of people got told their jobs were ending from governments around the world.
    Were they all sacked?

    He wasn’t personally sacked, the whole place was closed down.
    Lack of performance is not the only reason to lose a job and many know and accept it will be coming one day.
    So how do you know he was “sacked”, and not merely made redundant?


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  45. calli says:

    Maybe we’ll get a Second Battle of Vinegar Hill.

    And bushrangers. Definitely bushrangers.


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  46. Steve trickler says:

    Test.

    These clips always went into moderation on CAT 1.

    Baraka – Dervishes, Wailing Wall & the Kaaba


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  47. struth says:

    You’re not a pregnant woman JC, so don’t worry……………….


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  48. JC says:

    Cry Macho looks like a really good movie – possibly his last.


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  49. Professor Higgins says:

    Roger says:

    August 11, 2021 at 6:45 pm

    Back soon.

    ___________

    There’s no need to hurry…take all the time you want.

    Yeah, remember to look left before you cross the road.


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  50. calli says:

    I asked The Beloved what his favourite Western is (last 50 years).

    Hang ‘em High

    It’s a bit outside the time frame, but he loves it.

    And anything with John Wayne.

    Mine, of course, is Three Amigos.


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  51. JC says:

    struth says:
    August 11, 2021 at 7:05 pm

    You’re not a pregnant woman JC, so don’t worry……………….

    It’s a tragic situation, Struth. They talked all these 60 plus women to take the vax before any other group and now we find they’re all infertile. It’s shocking situation, I agree.


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