Open Thread – Tuesday 17 August 2021

Posted on August 17, 2021 by Adam D
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  5. Axl Rosé says:
    August 21, 2021 at 9:06 pm

    Eureka in Geelong?  LOL when?


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  9. Axl Rosé says:
    August 21, 2021 at 9:18 pm

    Will you tell us when to live; will you tell us when to die? h/t Yousuf Islam/mh


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  12. srr says:
    August 21, 2021 at 9:24 pm

    “Eureka in Geelong?  LOL when?”

    It was when I was still young, somewhere in the late 1970’s.


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  13. Armadillo says:
    August 21, 2021 at 9:24 pm

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

    Cardi, why don’t you just pick up the telephone to your SIL and tell him to slap the fuck out of Morrison?

    Barney has the most secure seat in the nation. If this shit continues, he’s going to be hanging on by his fingernails. Now is the time.

    Enough is enough.


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  14. Boambee John says:
    August 21, 2021 at 9:25 pm

    <i>Indolent says:
    August 21, 2021 at 8:42 pm

    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.</i>

    Not sure about the states, but the Commonwealth Parliament House website used to include full lists of contact details for MHRs and Senators.


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  16. Boambee John says:
    August 21, 2021 at 9:29 pm

    <i>candy says:
    August 21, 2021 at 9:02 pm

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

    VICPOL clearly came with “violence in mind”.


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  19. Axl Rosé says:
    August 21, 2021 at 9:43 pm

    OK thanks srr.  The “old” Eureka.

    I saw Chopper Read at the De La Ville.


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  20. EvilElvis says:
    August 21, 2021 at 9:46 pm

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

     

    Hang on, hang on…

    Just checking.


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  22. Armadillo says:
    August 21, 2021 at 9:51 pm

    Cardi, its starting to appear that Barney is so caught up in his own bubble that he’s forgotten his own electorate.

    Police firing rubber bullets at their own citizens. FMD.

    Jim must be shaking his head in despair. So should you.

    Pull him into gear, before your kids and grandkids get hurt by this shit. And ours.

    Barney is apparently the second most powerful person in this nation. He’s Deputy Prime Minister.

    Instead, we have unelected health officials and public servants running the show, with the Police running around shooting voters with rubber bullets.

    This crap needs to end. Now.


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  23. The Beer whisperer says:
    August 21, 2021 at 9:53 pm

    It seems any old fool can copy Zeppelin, but an honest rock ‘n roll band that has a lead singer with a similarly great voice should be judged on the merits of its music.

     

    Dirty Honey


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  24. mh says:
    August 21, 2021 at 9:54 pm

    RT with all the action
    Clashes & arrests in Sydney, Melbourne as anti-lockdown protesters defy Australian police pledge to unleash ‘full force’ (VIDEOS)
    https://www.rt.com/news/532690-australia-lockdown-protest-clashes-arrests/


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  25. The Beer Whisperer says:
    August 21, 2021 at 9:54 pm

    Why is this so hard?  Posts keep failing.


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  27. MatrixTransform says:
    August 21, 2021 at 9:59 pm

    <blockquote>Instead, we have unelected health officials and public servants running the show, with the Police running around shooting voters with rubber bullets.</blockquote>

    chilly in here … or is it just me?


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  28. Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
    August 21, 2021 at 10:00 pm

    “Clashes & arrests in Sydney, Melbourne as anti-lockdown protesters defy Australian police pledge to unleash ‘full force

     

    Where was that “full force” at the BLM protests?


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  29. mh says:
    August 21, 2021 at 10:01 pm

    Alex Jones used to rant and rave about how much the globalists hate children.

    It seems there are a lot of childless leaders that have been manoeuvred into positions of power for the Great Reset.


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  30. The Beer Whisperer says:
    August 21, 2021 at 10:01 pm

    70s rock will never die.

    Dirty Honey

     


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  32. srr says:
    August 21, 2021 at 10:06 pm

    “I saw Chopper Read at the De La Ville.”

     

    Ah, comedians, a good night out.

    Late 80’s, early 90’s saw this chap at The Rat –
    Austen Tayshus – Australiana (Official Uncensored Version)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StcXGhuliRk


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  34. Adam P says:
    August 21, 2021 at 10:07 pm

    Mark,

     

    Cheers for that. I will raise a glass in your honor.


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  35. Grigory M says:
    August 21, 2021 at 10:09 pm

    “Police running around shooting voters with rubber bullets”

     

    Hard to understand – live rounds would be more effective – if they want to stop a super-spreader event – and prevent it being repeated.


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  36. Armadillo says:
    August 21, 2021 at 10:10 pm

    It’s in a hairs whisker of people just saying “Enough is enough”.

    Go ahead and write, email or whatever to your local MP. Writing to your local paper usually ends in no result. Online, all your comments go to some fuckwit 18 year old moderator in one of the news agencies that sometimes lets it go through (if you can disguise it enough that they can’t comprehend).

    Meanwhile, people like nUmbers get a “free pass”. Alternate views and stuff.

    We fire literal “rubber bullets” at the media. They bounce off, because the media don’t bother to print them.

    Meanwhile, the Police fire real rubber bullets at us. Ones that actually break the flesh.


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  37. a reader says:
    August 21, 2021 at 10:11 pm

    (2) A reasonable excuse includes—
    (a) between the hours of 9pm on a day and 5am on the following day—an
    activity specified in Schedule 2, clause 2, 3, 5, 6 or 10–12, or

     

    ___________

    and with those words that bellend Health Hazzard locks up 2.32 million people. I really want to use the banned word to describe him.


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  39. Armadillo says:
    August 21, 2021 at 10:17 pm

    chilly in here … or is it just me?

    Matrix, I’m just slightly upset at the idiocy.

    Carry on 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊


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  40. Axl Rosé says:
    August 21, 2021 at 10:18 pm

    mh at 10:01pm.

    Yes.  That does seem so.   Deliberately barren women would be a lot more ruthless I suspect.

    Ghastly creatures who would have no power if a natural scheme of things.  Ghoullard,  Palace Chook,  Bin Chicken et al.  Mr. Wong if it got a chance.

     


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  41. Indolent says:
    August 21, 2021 at 10:24 pm

    Since Cardimona was kind enough to provide the PM’s email address I have sent my first ever letter to him, couched in much softer terms than my real feelings.

    Dear Prime Minister,

    Please see below an email I sent today to NSW One Nation Senator, Mark Latham.  It makes me sad to write in these terms, but this is the state we are in at the moment.

    Why have you let such a situation of local demagogy develop?  We are literally prisoners in our own homes, vastly more at risk from the capricious actions of our gaolers than from a virus which, despite the hype, has devolved into the equivalent of a mild flu.  If you investigated the matter, you would find that far more people have died in Australia this year from reaction to the vaccines than from Covid, particularly young people who were not at risk in the first place.

    In any event, you must be aware that cheap, safe and effective therapeutics are available one of which, Chloroquine (now in the even safer form of Hydroxychloroquine), has been known since at least 2005 to be cure corona viruses – as stated by Dr. Fauci himself at the time.

    I know that the powerful drug companies benefit mightily from the experimental drugs but don’t you think it’s about time to put Australians first?  Whatever the politics, whatever the international  commitments, this experiment in authoritarian rule must end now.  Medical tyranny is still just that – tyranny and that is definitely not the Australian way.

    I stated in my message to Senator Latham below that Australia is no longer a free country.  Please prove me wrong by releasing us from the yoke of this manufactured crisis which has already caused untold damage in terms of our economy and people whose lives and livelihoods are literally being stollen by governments apparently drunk on power.

    Yours sincerely

    Indolent


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  42. Zipster says:
    August 21, 2021 at 10:24 pm

    (2) A reasonable excuse includes—
    (a) between the hours of 9pm on a day and 5am on the following day—an
    activity specified in Schedule 2, clause 2, 3, 5, 6 or 10–12, or

     

    written like true bugmen


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  43. Rabz says:
    August 21, 2021 at 10:25 pm

    Bluddee hell – a wall of sound 🙃

     

    Trigger warning – if you do not like the Cocteau Twins, do not click on the link …

     


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  44. mh says:
    August 21, 2021 at 10:28 pm

    Macron, too.

    No kids, former banker at Goldman Sachs, of course he’s there for the Reset.

    Disgusting piece of anti-human shit.

     


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  45. Bar Beach Swimmer says:
    August 21, 2021 at 10:29 pm

    I’ve been watching The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and it’s got about 15 minutes to go.  It’s on SBS on-demand.  Though I’ve seen it before, it’s a tour de force of a film and thus repays subsequent viewings.

    I’ve stopped it to relay a major moment – a discourse really about fighting the enemy.  I think it holds special resonance at the moment because of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and because of the Ben Roberts-Smith case.

    For those who don’t know the story, the movie follows the life of Major-General Clive Wynn-Candy from 1902 until the middle of WWII.  It was made during WWII for the war effort by two of the greats of British Cinema – Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

    We’re at the moment where, having come home from being booked to read a speech on the wireless, which at the last moment has been cancelled, the General has been informed that he has been stood down from his army position and, like anyone who’s lost their job, especially someone who’s given his whole life to one, specific career and one that’s needed right at this moment, he’s questioning why.

    His close friend of 40 years, an ex-Prussian army officer, now living in England as a refugee from the Third Reich, explains:

    Wynne-Candy: ‘They don’t need me anymore…Does my knowledge count for nothing, experience, skill, you tell me.’

    His friend replies:  ‘It is a different knowledge they need now.  The enemy’s different so you have to be different too…I read your broadcast  up to the point where you described the collapse of France.

    You commented on Nazi methods, foul fighting, bombing refugees, machine gunning hospitals, life boats, light ships, bailed out pilots and so on, by saying that you despised them, that you would be ashamed to fight on their side and that you’d sooner accept defeat than victory, if it could only be won by those methods…

    If you let yourself be defeated by them just because you are too fair to hit back, the same way that they hit you, there won’t be any methods, but Nazi methods.  If you preach the rules of the game, while they use every foul and filthy trick against you, they’ll laugh at you; they’ll think you weak; decadent. I thought so myself in 1919…’

    [Clive says but we won the war, to which his friend replies] ‘No, we lost it, but you lost something, too.  You forgot to learn the moral.  Because victory was yours, you failed to learn your lesson 20 years ago, and now you’ll have to pay your school fees again.  Some of your will learn quicker than the others.  Some will never learn it.  Because you have been educated to be a gentleman, and a sportsman, in peace and war… but this is not a gentleman’s war.  This time you are fighting for your very existence, against the most devilish idea ever created by a human brain: Nazi-ism.  And if you lose, there won’t be a return match next year, perhaps not even for 100 years.’

     

    How many times will the West go to war to be defeated, partly, by the unwillingness to fight with everything it has, in every way possible, to win? Are we at the juncture where “there won’t be a return match next year?” After Afghanistan, we should all be wondering that now.

    And as to BRS.  His reputation is being besmirched because, allegedly, standards of warfare were not maintained. While he has unreservedly denied any wrongdoing, we should all know by now that the other side does not play fair.  It’s a pity that our politicians still don’t know it.

    For those who have not seen the film, I highly recommend it.

     

     


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  46. mh says:
    August 21, 2021 at 10:31 pm

    Dammit, Macron was Rothschild.


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  47. Armadillo says:
    August 21, 2021 at 10:31 pm

    The Police can fire rubber bullets at citizens, but they can’t figure out how to stop overseas scammers from sending you messages on your mobile phone and to your email address.

    Excellent work, plod.


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  48. Bar Beach Swimmer says:
    August 21, 2021 at 10:35 pm

    Indolent, great letter.

     


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  49. Axl Rosé says:
    August 21, 2021 at 10:38 pm

    “Former banker at Goldman Sachs” makes all other peculiarities pale into insignificance. Turdball etc


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  50. Rabz says:
    August 21, 2021 at 10:43 pm

    This is not a gentleman’s war.  This time you are fighting for your very existence, against the most devilish idea ever created by a human brain: Collectivism.  If you lose, there won’t be a return match next year, perhaps not even for 100 years.

    We’ve already lost. Collectivism manifests its hideously uglee self in many guises. Too many for a decadent and beyond redemption West (if it could be dignified with such a term) to comprehend.

    We were not warned about this before, of course.


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  51. mh says:
    August 21, 2021 at 10:44 pm

    Sorry Axl, I meant Rothschild. But I expect there is a Goldman connection, too.

    2008 Works as investment banker at Rothschild, where he earns about €2.9m, notably for his role in advising Nestlé on the acquisition of a Pfizer unit.

    🤔


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  52. Armadillo says:
    August 21, 2021 at 10:44 pm

    Since Cardimona was kind enough to provide the PM’s email address I have sent my first ever letter to him, couched in much softer terms than my real feelings.

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    Brilliant letter Indolent. It will be forwarded on to other departments and everyone will nod. It will end up in a digital filing cabinet. Somewhere.

    If you want to see action, post them a rubber bullet in an envelope with your home address on the back.


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  53. Bar Beach Swimmer says:
    August 21, 2021 at 10:45 pm

    Hard to understand – live rounds would be more effective – if they want to stop a super-spreader event – and prevent it being repeated.

     

    I’m surprised that flag gravatar of yours hasn’t got on it a hammer and a sickle.


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  54. Axl Rosé says:
    August 21, 2021 at 10:45 pm

    “Goldman Sachs” or “Rhodes Scholar”.  Same finishing school.  Turdball is both.


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  55. Jorge says:
    August 21, 2021 at 10:50 pm

    Tucker Carlson: 90% of Afghan military graduating from US training programs could not read. Nearly all had drug issues. US Soldier: it was like being in charge of 26 kids. You had to repeat 30 times in a day: ‘Don’t do that. Don’t do that.’

    US spent a billion training them and every journalist and politician must have had wind of this  but hey rights of women.

    What a filthy, rancid sewer of corruption and depravity we inhabit. China must be straining at the traces.


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  56. MatrixTransform says:
    August 21, 2021 at 10:55 pm

    <blockquote>if you do not like the Cocteau Twins</blockquote>

    if there’s a helicopter crashing with bjork and kate bush as passengers, then I hope the cocteau twins are pilot and co-pilot.


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  58. Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
    August 21, 2021 at 10:58 pm

    “For those who have not seen the film, I highly recommend it.”

    ============================================================

     

    Second that one, BBS, highly recommended.


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  59. Mick Gold Coast QLD says:
    August 21, 2021 at 10:59 pm

    Not Uh oh August 21 at 6:42 pm says (newcatallaxy.blog/2021/08/21/open-thread-weekend):

    <blockquote>”I’m calling ‘bullshit’ on reports of police firing rubber bullets at protesters.
    We’re well down the path but I don’t believe we’ve gone that far yet.”</blockquote>

     

    then, Mater August 21 at 6:56 pm says (newcatallaxy.blog):

     

    <blockquote>”Definitely happened.
    Saw it on Nine News.”</blockquote>

    Knuckle Dragger August 21 at 8:22 pm says (newcatallaxy.blog):

    <blockquote>”… they did not fire rubber bullets into the crowd. …They are not rubber bullets. The weapon in the photos does not fire rubber bullets.

    They are pellets, similar to paintballs that are filled with OC spray.”</blockquote>


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  61. Axl Rosé says:
    August 21, 2021 at 11:03 pm

    Invade a country.  Try and train the rag-tag lot at your disposal to unite and fight your enemy (The Taliban, North Vietnam etc).

    Fail.

    Rinse and repeat.  Money in keeping the wheels of the war machine greased.


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  62. Rabz says:
    August 21, 2021 at 11:03 pm

    They can film you at work
    Or when they let you play
    They can tape what you think
    They can tape what you say
    They can blur your I.D. so you won’t know what’s
    Real by reel
    They’re busy little bees recording everything you feel
    On real by reel
    You’re documented down like rats
    They’re catching up on every squeal
    On real by reel
    Real by reel by real 😟


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  63. Armadillo says:
    August 21, 2021 at 11:03 pm

    Letters to the editor won’t do it, nor will emails to politicians.

    Cardi needs to speak to his SIL. Heart to heart.

    Something along the lines of “Are you a total fuckwit allowing Police to fire on unarmed citizens” would be a good start. He can ad lib from there.

     


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  64. Rabz says:
    August 21, 2021 at 11:04 pm

    They can film you at work
    Or when they let you play
    They can tape what you think
    They can tape what you say
    They can blur your I.D. so you won’t know what’s
    Real by reel
    They’re busy little bees recording everything you feel
    On real by reel
    You’re documented down like rats
    They’re catching up on every squeal
    On real by reel
    Real by reel by real 😟


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  65. cohenite says:
    August 21, 2021 at 11:07 pm

    One of the trolls:

     

    “Hard to understand – live rounds would be more effective – if they want to stop a super-spreader event – and prevent it being repeated.”

     

    It’s funny because it wasn’t being funny.


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  67. mh says:
    August 21, 2021 at 11:09 pm

    When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. – Thomas Jefferson


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  68. MatrixTransform says:
    August 21, 2021 at 11:09 pm

    I just went in for a shiraz top-up

    as i walked back to the dog-house and computer, i stopped for a second as I closed the door.

    Hmmm, I thought … when the scourge came and our own people started shooting at us, I thought there’d be rift.

    an obvious parting…an up-roar.

    thought it would be broken and obviously so

    but nah, here’s me on the step and its just the same as yesterday

    except for the bullets

    and I’m typing this

    and history repeats

     

    god help us all


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  69. rickw says:
    August 21, 2021 at 11:12 pm

    Melbournians should be bloody proud of themselves after today’s effort.

    Where to next?  Dickhead Dan to have his predictable reaction and be more of a Dickhead than ever?

    We’re edging towards a civil war.  Will government back down?

    The People won’t.

    Each day more and more of The People have less and less to lose.


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  71. Bar Beach Swimmer says:
    August 21, 2021 at 11:19 pm

    rickw

    Each day more and more of The People have less and less to lose.

    ____________________________________________________________

    How shocking in a country that has always prided itself on being egalitarian and supportive of the most in need, swathes of people are being made desperate by (our?) governments.

     


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  72. Rabz says:
    August 21, 2021 at 11:19 pm

    Spurg?

     

    Who is this alleged carbon based lifeform of whom you speak, I asks ya? 😜

     


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  74. MatrixTransform says:
    August 21, 2021 at 11:25 pm

    not Spurg

    cant be

    spurge had good taste in music


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  75. Bar Beach Swimmer says:
    August 21, 2021 at 11:25 pm

    Rabz says:
    August 21, 2021 at 11:19 pm

    Do I detect a 😊?


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  76. Bar Beach Swimmer says:
    August 21, 2021 at 11:28 pm

    mh, some good cartoons there!


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  77. Rabz says:
    August 21, 2021 at 11:33 pm

    For poor ol’ Arks – he just loves this sort of bombast … 🧐


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  80. Rabz says:
    August 21, 2021 at 11:36 pm

    spurge had good taste in music

    FFS – the aforementioned indivegetable is of the following:

    Dead (very)
    Buried
    Cremated

    Enuff. 🤪

     


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  81. Armadillo says:
    August 21, 2021 at 11:38 pm

    How shocking in a country that has always prided itself on being egalitarian and supportive of the most in need, swathes of people are being made desperate by (our?) governments.

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    Egalitarianism is long gone.


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  83. mh says:
    August 21, 2021 at 11:42 pm

    Videos Out Of Australia Show Unprecedented Levels Of Tyranny
    https://www.banned.video/watch?id=611e9360f4d8bd5dc7145693

    Interesting one @ -6.30


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  84. rickw says:
    August 21, 2021 at 11:43 pm

    SHIT!

    I busted into Bunnings today and forgot to buy fire blankets and epoxy resin to make body armour!

    🤣


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  86. rickw says:
    August 21, 2021 at 11:48 pm

    Love Uncle Roger!!!


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  87. a reader says:
    August 21, 2021 at 11:54 pm

    Uncle Roger deleted a video he had filmed because one of the people in it had been rude about Beijing. Lost a lot of respect from me over that


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  88. caveman says:
    August 21, 2021 at 11:57 pm

    According to this SA only go to level 5. Is 6 like eleventy ?

    SA restrictions

     


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  89. mh says:
    August 22, 2021 at 12:03 am

    Police fire pepper ball rounds in day of violence
    Victoria Police deployed for the first time the most powerful nonlethal force available to dispel violent protests, while NSW rallies were suppressed in major crackdown.
    By RHIANNON DOWN, JOSEPH LAM


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  90. mh says:
    August 22, 2021 at 12:11 am

    ‘ACT Policing say their time is being wasted by “needless” calls, including an attempt to report two maskless children jumping on a trampoline in their own backyard.

    Another person called the cops because two people were getting out of their vehicle in a carpark, ACT police said.’

    ***

    VicPol love those sort of cases.


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  91. johanna says:
    August 22, 2021 at 12:12 am

    I love Uncle Roger too.

    Sad to hear that he is buckling under to the Chicoms – although his motives were probably pragmatic rather than ideological. I doubt that he is a fan of any regime.


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  92. Gab says:
    August 22, 2021 at 12:16 am

    Police not only fired rubber bullets at unarmed citizens, they pepper sprayed a 13 year old boy.

     

    And don’t for 1 second believe the media – these were peaceful protesters. Violence occurred by the police when they started spraying them and firing at them. People then ran for their lives.


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  93. JC says:
    August 22, 2021 at 12:16 am

    It looks really, really bad at the Kabul airport with people appearing not to be practicing social distancing.


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  94. Rabz says:
    August 22, 2021 at 12:20 am

    Bluddee hell – the poor ol’ Spurge (whoever is he is) would not have lodged a song of this magnificence … 😎

     


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  96. mh says:
    August 22, 2021 at 12:22 am

    If Tom was here, he would be talking about the upcoming Ebor Hcp from York.

    Horses that often head out for the Melbourne Cup race in it. I expect they would be having second thoughts if they are aware of the nutters currently running Victoria.


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  100. Armadillo says:
    August 22, 2021 at 12:36 am

    It looks really, really bad at the Kabul airport with people appearing not to be practicing social distancing.

    ——————————————————————————————————

    They threw some babies over the fence for Joe to sniff.

    Mission Accomplished!!!


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