Open Thread – Tuesday 17 August 2021

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  1. mh says:

    Where’s the music quiz?
    ***

    Rabz, you’ll just have to start without Graeme.

    1. Which UK music act partnered with Tammy Wynette in the early 90s?


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  2. MatrixTransform says:

    ———–
    mh says: 6:37 pm
    ———–

    love love love the helmets … storm-trooper chic


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  3. kaysee says:

     

    ikamatua says:

    August 21, 2021 at 2:50 pm

    The alternative is building parallel structures within society of like minded people.

    How will these parallel structures be built?

    What is the first step?


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  4. Roger says:

    Is anyone else here old enough to remember the axiom “Question authority”?

    It would seem all the journalists who are have long since retired from the field.

    And the few that do “question authority” have not come to journalism via the prog-left sausage factories in the universities but via other routes.

    The Left has long since become what it set out to subvert.


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  5. Axl Rosé says:

    Q.  Which Elvis was the one who died at Graceland?


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  6. Theo says:

    So what was the threat factor that triggered the cops to stick pigs with long arms in the anti-protesters?

     

    Id love to see the justification for that.

    ” He coughed in an aggressive manner”

    ” Dan said it was ok as long as I save one octogenarian by hosing the crowd”…


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  7. kaysee says:

    Joanna says:

    August 21, 2021 at 4:52 pm

    I attended the Melbourne protest.

    Thanks, Joanna, and all others who got out to join the protests in different parts of the country.


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  8. srr says:

    BE A MAN

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZuhFqWEoAw
    Aug 21, 2021
    Acts17Apologetics

    A recent picture of a planeload of refugees fleeing Afghanistan shows that the overwhelming majority of those fleeing are grown men. Are the women and children being left to fend for themselves against the Taliban? David Wood discusses the issue.


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

    shatterzzz says:
    August 21, 2021 at 5:33 pm
    __________________

    What a stupid comment.


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  10. Roger says:

    The Left has long since become what it set out to subvert.

    Dan Andrews’s police using rubber bullets on protesters is a perfect example.

    Joh never stooped so low.

     


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  11. Axl Rosé says:

    Q.  Which of these famous artists did NOT fake their death?

    a. David Bowie

    b. Freddie Mercury

    c. George Michael

    d. Prince


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  12. cohenite says:

    Apparently the Brits are walking through the shithole of khabul rescuing British subjects and shooting any goat rooters who interfere. The zombie’s administration is requesting the Brits to stop it because it is making the yanks look bad.

     

    Fox has a few ex SEALs on; one guy could barely restrain himself and if the zombie or any of his fucking swamp had been in the same room, they would have had their fat guts slited.


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  13. Mater says:

    Police fire rubber bullets

    WTF?  What country is this?

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    This link, at about the 1:01 mark.

    https://www.9news.com.au/videos/national/six-police-hospitalised-in-violent-melbourne-anti-lockdown-protests/ckslihmm6000q0gmbp1lg2lmv

     


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

    9news.com.au/videos/national/six-police-hospitalised

    There was a time when I would have seen this as a bad thing.

     


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  15. calli says:

    Okay.  We’ve got a 60’s music quiz, an alternative Spock and fake history.

    These seemingly disparate subjects can be summed up in a single image.

    🖖


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  16. egg_ says:

    Six plod hospitalised?

    Must do better.

     


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

    Okay.  We’ve got a 60’s music quiz, an alternative Spock and fake history.

    ________________________

    Well, I’m still allowed to work, … a technicality, coz that’d be assuming there’s any customers who aren’t locked down in the NewSouthVicistan gulag archipelago.


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  18. egg_ says:

    Q.  Which of these famous artists did NOT fake their death?

    a. David Bowie

    b. Freddie Mercury

    c. George Michael

    d. Prince

    _______________

    Prince was the only straight one IIRC, FWIW.

     


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  19. Roger says:

    These seemingly disparate subjects can be summed up in a single image.

    🤣

     


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  20. ikamatua says:

    “How will these parallel structures be built?

    What is the first step?”

    ..

    First, gather around you a group of exceptional individuals of a like mind.

    https://rumble.com/vkk1l2-july-30-2021.html


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  21. Bruce of Newcastle says:

    Q.  Which of these famous artists did NOT fake their death?

     

    The Guns & Roses singer?

     


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  22. Joanna says:

    Cheers Kaysee, and thanks to HBB and Runny for the encouragement to go.

     


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  23. cohenite says:

    “This link, at about the 1:01 mark.

    https://www.9news.com.au/videos/national/six-police-hospitalised-in-violent-melbourne-anti-lockdown-protests/ckslihmm6000q0gmbp1lg2lmv

    The injured cops looked as though they had pepper sprayed themselves.

     


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  24. Eyrie says:

    “Six plod hospitalised?”

     

    Its a start.


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  25. Makka says:

    Nobel Prize Winner Warns Vaccines Facilitate Development of Deadlier COVID Variants, Urges Public to Reject Jabs
    https://thenewamerican.com/french-nobel-prize-winner-warns-vaccines-facilitate-development-of-deadlier-covid-variants-urges-the-public-to-reject-jabs/

     

     


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  26. H B Bear says:

    Cripes, now I’ll get done for treason.


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  27. JMH says:

    Joanna says:

    August 21, 2021 at 4:52 pm

    I attended the Melbourne protest.

    ********************

    Thank you from me as well.

     

    I linked to Topher Field’s livestream upthread.  I respect what he does, but am somewhat frustrated when he begins to have a meltdown when he thinks the crowds aren’t ‘thinking’ of escape routes, etc.  On that, he is correct.  His problem is he expects masses to think ahead.  Not about to happen, Topher – unless there are strong leaders and rules of engagement, particularly when it comes to the Jacks.  His broadcast today was pretty much on par with his coverage of the rally a month or so ago.

    Perhaps Topher should weave his way into the inner sanctum of the protest organisation and show them how it should be done!


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  28. Dot says:

    They’re not rubber bullets.

     

    They’re Health Bullets.


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  29. Axl Rosé says:

    What an absolute farce the last 45 seconds at the Gabba were.

    Bears needing 1 point to overtake Footscray on percentage and a top four berth.

    AFL Stasi Umpires to the rescue!

    A free kick to McStay on the 50m line that was horseshit.  He ran into the tackler head first!

    McStay missed everything.  From boundary throw in, some Bear kicked out on full.  Called a point!!!!  FFS you cheating cunts are the equal of Dan Andrews.

    Thanks for having a crack Meth Coast.  We owe you one.


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  30. JC says:

    Speechless

     
    Actual LA Times Headline: “Larry Elder is the Black Face of White Supremacy. You’ve Been Warned”
     

     


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  31. Timothy Neilson says:

    calli says:
    August 21, 2021 at 7:13 pm

    Whoa, no masks and no social distancing! Trigger alert please!


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  32. calli says:

    Whaddaya expect, Neilson?

    Three of them are dead!

    Covid haunted Abbey Road.  A Klingon bio-weapon.


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  33. kaysee says:

    Immigrant dad sounds off on ‘woke’ school agendas ‘dumbing down’ students

    Loudoun County parent and Iranian immigrant Dimis Christophy calls out critical race theory being used as indoctrination in schools.


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  34. egg_ says:

    The injured cops looked as though they had pepper sprayed themselves.

    _________________

    +1`

    Or each other – Dan’s Keystone Cops.

    Do they draw the short straw to attend?

     


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  35. H B Bear says:

    Could be worse.  They weren’t chicken trucked.


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  36. Axl Rosé says:

    Continuing on…………….

    a. Jim Morrison

    b. Kurt Cobain

    c. Malcolm Young

    d. John Lennon


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  37. JMH says:

    egg_ says:
    August 21, 2021 at 7:49 pm

    The injured cops looked as though they had pepper sprayed themselves.

    **************************

    Tear gas was also used by Dan of the Dead’s Gestapo at the Melbourne march.  Allegedly


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  38. srr says:

    I asked someone if they thought the ‘rubber bulleting’ would cause more or less to turn out next time.

     

    “Less. Most don’t care, they’ve got the dole, they’ll just do what they’re told rather than get shot. It’s over.”

     

    I disagree, but I believe people also need to be reminded how many paid to have the very painful FUN of being shot with paint balls, and then remind them of the real world stakes, so much greater than beating the a’holes they work with, in a paintball war.

    “The only weapon that is totally new for VicPol is the VKS Pepperball firearm (pictured below). A 175 shot semi-automatic rifle that fires capsicum rounds, blunt force pellets the size of marbles or dye markers to brand people for arrest later.”

    RTWT – https://melbactivistlegal.org.au/2018/03/24/notwithyou-why-more-repressive-weapons-for-victoria-police-is-a-very-bad-idea/


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  39. Mick Gold Coast QLD says:

    Timothy Neilson says August 21 at 6:44 pm:

    <blockquote>“…

    Mick, would you still defer to the expert if …”</blockquote>

    I lost interest when you ignored what I propounded and instead invented something you believe I really intended.

    <blockquote>”… being sodomised”</blockquote>

    Get out of the gutter. I have some able young fellas who can climb down to help you …

    <blockquote>”there’s a lot of dross here, but it gets back to the old issue, if we start restricting freedom of speech”</blockquote>

    Well there is an intellectual leap. There is no inexorable link between the first bit, the second bit and the third bit. “dross here” is good reason to find better things to do, as I have found.

    <blockquote>”If you’d rather trust people like Maximum Leader, Sutton, Weimar, Patton and Cornelius, go ahead.”</blockquote>

    Now why, Tim, would I do that? I have never heard of these strangers

    You could identify them more clearly but you need not bother. A wise man would prefer to seek objective opinion from trusted, proven sources, don’t you think?

    Frankly the site is a bog, populated largely by odd and friendless souls listening dutifully to a handful of preening narcissists who, if they were as clever and as important as they claim, would not have the time to waste here.


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  40. egg_ says:

    Yup, Keystone McNuggets aren’t on the menu, yet?

     

     


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  41. kaysee says:

    ikamatua says:

    August 21, 2021 at 7:26 pm

    Arky, you are advising like-minded folk to build some safe survival spaces. That is fine at the basic level, the human need to connect and feel secure (at all levels) with an inner group of people.

    But, how does that help against the wokerati and progressives who are taking over every facet of society? Do we just ensure that we have this safe, small, cosy network to protect ourselves?

    For how long will small discrete little groups survive the onslaught of the powerful woke-wingers.


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  42. egg_ says:

    Chicken truckin’ good.

     


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  43. egg_ says:

    a. Jim Morrison

    _____________

    The Doors were gobsmacked that they weren’t invited to the funeral, even if it was in France.

    “ΚΑΤΑ ΤΟΝ ΔΑΙΜΟΝΑ ΕΑΥΤΟΥ”

     


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  44. Indolent says:

    Another letter to Mark Latham, copies to Craig Kelly and Alan Jones –

    Dear Mr. Latham,

    Sorry to keep contacting you, but these are not normal times and we need to do whatever we can to inform and assist those members of our parliament who are open to truth, as opposed to a preordained narrative, and are in a position to do something about it or at least bring it to public attention.  Our media, the propaganda arm of the government, is more inclined to censor and ignore anything inconvenient to that narrative rather than investigate and report.

    Our masters, in their infinite wisdom, have now ordained that we must wear masks not only indoors but also outside.  No scientific backing was provided for this new dictum, simply because there isn’t any.  It has been known over many years that masks are not only ineffective in preventing virus spread they are dangerous to health in and of themselves – and that’s without taking into account the mental health effects which can also be severe, especially for children.

    I enclose a copy of an article published in the Sydney Morning Herald in 2003 during the SARS outbreak in which the NSW Fair Trading Minister a the time, Reba Meagher, warned against exaggerated claims for masks by retailers and it was made clear that they were safe for only short periods and were a hygiene risk.  A sensible approach was taken then.  Why is this being ignored now?

    The two links below are both from Dr. Vernon Coleman.  The first is the more recent, in which he warns about the increased risk of developing cancer and the metastasising of existing cancers through a reduction in the blood oxygen supply from wearing masks.  He states that cancers thrive in a low oxygen environment.   The second is a study on the general effects and risks of mask wearing.  Read that in detail and I believe you’ll think twice before subjecting yourself and your family to this form of torture again.

    Masks Cause Cancer – Here is the Proof (brandnewtube.com)

    proof-that-face-masks-do-more-harm-than-good-v2.pdf (vernoncoleman.org)

    The people of this state and this country are being treated like children, subjected to total authoritarian rule with even their right to make decisions about their own health and body stripped from them.   How did we get here?  And, more importantly, how do we end this oppression?  All we ask is the right to make our own decisions about our own health and wellbeing.

    Whatever happened to human rights?  We have reached the point where the government is seriously threatening to withhold access to food from people in an attempt to coerce them into taking an experimental drug.  That is not my idea of caring for anyone’s health and wellbeing, only for their own power.

    Please do whatever you can to reverse this creeping tyranny that is being imposed on us.  The only thing that’s certain is that this country is no longer a democracy.

    Yours sincerely

    Indolent

    It probably won’t achieve anything but at least it make me feel I’m doing something.


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  45. Dot says:

    *Actual LA Times Headline: “Larry Elder is the Black Face of White Supremacy. You’ve Been Warned”*

     

    Oh God!

    That’s almost a fire engine, isn’t it?

     


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  46. Timothy Neilson says:

    “dross here” is good reason to find better things to do, as I have found.

    *****

    Believe me, I won’t try to stop you.

    But somehow I think your actions will continue to belie your words.


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  47. jo says:

    Six traitors in hospital? Dit the chicken van miss?


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  48. Axl Rosé says:

    Question was:  did NOT fake their deaths, Egg.  Morrison was a no brainer.  Part of the 27 club etc.

    Continuing;

    i. Jimi Hendrix

    j. Amy Winehouse

    k. Marc Bolan

    l. Janis Joplin

    m. All of the above


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  49. Mick Gold Coast QLD says:

    Timothy Neilson August 21 at 8:11 pm says:

    <blockquote>”“dross here” is good reason to find better things to do, as I have found.

    *****

    Believe me, I won’t try to stop you.

    But somehow I think your actions will continue to belie your words.”</blockquote>

     

    There you go again genius, repeating what you think I said rather than what I did say. Grow up.


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  50. cohenite says:

    Trump on his dealings with the talifucks and his opinion on the zombie:

    https://generaldispatch.whatfinger.com/watch-president-trump-speaks-out-on-biden-he-goes-off/

    Trump is a master negotiator who profoundly understands carrots and sticks and human nature; his achievements internationally were extraordinary: NK, ME, China, Iran, Russia; he would have controlled the talifcuks and got out with honour and all people accounted for.

    Either the swamp is allowing the zombie to actually do this or Rice and a few others behind the scenes have their hands up his decrepit arse; either way the msm has now turned on him so I think my estimate in Carpe’s lotto about when the old shit gets dragged out may be overblown; I said 24/12/21; it may happen sooner, especially if a few yanks get sliced and diced by the goat rooters.


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  51. Timothy Neilson says:

    There you go again genius, repeating what you think I said rather than what I did say. Grow up.

    *****

     

    Poor old self-beclowner.

    When someone beclowns themselves so spectacularly it’s just desperately sad.


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  52. Steve trickler says:
  53. egg_ says:

    Morrison was a no brainer.

    ______________

    I.T. actually posted about the well known ‘Nam era psyops conjecture about California bands at the time, Morrison’s dad being in the Military.

    /Peace out bro!

     

     


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  54. Rabz says:

    Which of the following declared themselves “the hardest working man in Show Business”?

    Gliberace

    Elvis

    Tom O’ Jones

    James Brown


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  55. kaysee says:

    Indolent says:

    August 21, 2021 at 8:09 pm

    Another letter to Mark Latham, copies to Craig Kelly and Alan Jones –

    Indolent, have you sent this letter via email or posted it?

    If via email, why not send it out to other pollies, as well?  There could well be someone who may become aware of the facts in your letter and may pass it on or act on it.

    It probably won’t achieve anything but at least it make me feel I’m doing something.

    You are doing something.


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  56. MatrixTransform says:

    <blockquote>

    Frankly the site is a bog, populated largely by odd and friendless souls listening dutifully to a handful of preening narcissists who, if they were as clever and as important as they claim, would not have the time to waste here.

    </blockquote>

    honk honk … it’s goose world again

     


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  57. Axl Rosé says:

    Death = big boost in record sales.  Artist has reached use by date?  Fake death.  Cash in.

    All these artists who died at 27 because ‘crazy rock stars’ and ‘drug overdose’ LOL.

     

     

    Of course I am a crazy person;  and we all know they are dead because the man on the telly said so.

    Peace out!


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  58. egg_ says:

    Laurel Canyon

    As mentioned by I.T.


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  59. candy says:

    Liberace – because “Show Business” sounds like a term he would use?


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  60. Dot says:

    It’s Bo Diddley because he was the 500% man.


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  61. Rabz says:

    The original and the best – which is it?

    CCR

    Marvin

    GN&P

    The Miracles


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  62. struth says:

    “the brutal and cowardly conduct of a parcel of big ugly, fat necked, wombat headed, big bellied, magpie legged, narrow hipped splaw-footed sons of Irish bailiffs or English landlords which is better known as officers of justice or Victorian police”

    Ned Kelly.


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  63. Rabz says:

    Candy – the hint was in the link.

    JB – let’s get into some reefer and PCP and lead some poor ol’ cops on a tri-state chase, I tells ya! 🤠

     


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  64. Indolent says:

    If via email, why not send it out to other pollies, as well?

    Does anyone have a collection of politicians’ emails?  Many of them don’t even provide one, you have to write to them via their web sites.  Malcolm Roberts for one.  I would have loved to include him.


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  65. candy says:

    The original and the best – which is it?

     

    CCR.


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  66. Rabz says:

    Who played the guitar solo on this Talking Heads classic?

    Jimmy Page

    Dave Gilmour

    Adrien Belew

    Pete Townshend

     


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  67. mh says:

    “Protesting is not unlawful. It’s a human right” – VicPol Assistant Commissioner

    https://twitter.com/AUrightcentrist/status/1428950362422005764?s=20

     

     


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  68. Rabz says:

    Candy – wrong (again). 😕


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  69. Bons says:

    Dammit!  The resident mafia didn’t fall for my published kale and parsnip salad menu, and refused to go elsewhere despite my urging.

    I was forced to indulge in a pork belly with spicy apple, onion and nutmeg stuffing and a pear, cinnamon and caramelised red onion dressing, on a bed of toasted mash.  Magnificent, but the six hour bake time is a touch daunting.

    Now I’ll never escape Saturday night duty.  They won’t even accept my usual excuse that I need to watch the rugby.  Even this lot know that nobody watches those incils acting out their US Women’s Soccer Team fantasies or perhaps Australian Cricket Team soy equivalent behaviour.  I’m going to claim a mental health crisis.  Bullet proof.  I’ll be on Australian Story.

    Cassie.  Yeah, the chooks missed out, as did I.


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  70. jo says:

    Hint for the protesters paint ball guns. AK47’s better.


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  71. Axl Rosé says:

    Hip to Laurel Canyon et al, bro.

    You are winning thus far.

     

    Not much interest though.  Maybe a serial killer quiz?


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  72. Rabz says:

    You may find yourself existing in a hitlerist police state, mate … 😟

     


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  73. Axl Rosé says:

    Gulf of Tonkin.  Without looking at your link, Egg.

     

    Adrien Belew.


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  74. Cardimona says:

    Most federal MPs can be emailed using this formula – firstname.lastname.MP @ aph.gov.au (no spaces, obviously.)

    Except ScoMao, who can be emailed at Scott.Morrison.PM@aph.gov.au.

    Senators can be reached at Senator.Lastname @ aph.gov.au.


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  75. srr says:

    “It’s Bo Diddley because he was the 500% man.”

     

    Yep. Saw him at the Eureka in Geelong, young crowd didn’t know how privileged they were, some being a’holes, so he stopped mid tune, gave them a short, sharp talking to, they pulled their heads in, he played on. One of the best nights of music ever.


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  76. min says:

    Put  elderly people with cognitive impairment under stress and they deteriorate very quickly . Soon they will be Hiden Biden . He is embarrassing enough as it is , I have just watched others in the Whitehouse contradicting statements he had made an hour previously . Democrats have a huge problem because if they enact the 25th Amendment, so it is reported, it means with Kamala now the new President they are down the vote that is presently 50 / 50.  Kamala again standing beside Joe  when he speaks , is looking scared . Look at her eyes. What has she done competently since being VP ? Moreover she is disliked even by her fellow Dems.
    What can Americans do to rescue their country?


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  77. Rabz says:

    Gee, grate work, googleries.


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  78. kaysee says:

    Federal Parliament

    If you open the docs and hover over the envelope icon, you will see the email address.


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  79. candy says:

    Victoria police say the protestors came with “violence in mind”.   That seems a huge assumption.

     


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  80. Grigory M says:

    “It probably won’t achieve anything but at least it make me feel I’m doing something.”

     

    Latho will get a big laugh out of it, Indolent – help him fill in a few minutes of his 8 year sinecure.


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  81. kaysee says:

    Mixed Bag  ∘◦∘◦ ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐶ

    One


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  82. mh says:

    A question posed to Gulag Gladys and TaliDan:
    Where Do The Children Play?
    Cat Stevens

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXxcMw5PTDg


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  83. Rabz says:

    This stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid country. 😠


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