Open Thread – Tuesday 17 August 2021

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  1. srr says:

    srr says:

    September 4, 2021 at 6:40 pm

    Bar Beach Swimmer says:
    September 4, 2021 at 4:57 pm

    srr @ 9:51 am

    that was fantastic!

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    🙂 Bob is very easy to binge watch. Seems his life made for making him a naturally delightful story teller-
    Mortimerian Tales – Bob Mortimer on Would I Lie to You? – Part 1 [there’s also a Part 2]
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vE8ExuuNZQ
    Compilation of Bob Mortimer’s stories on Would I Lie to You?
    00:07 – I once set fire to my house with a box of fireworks.
    06:50 – The police once ordered me to leave town because I was frightening the locals.
    13:11 – This is Keith. He’s my oldest friend, and when we were at school together, we hid a dictaphone in the classroom ceiling to confuse our teacher.
    18:25 – This is the cushion that I used to carry my pet owl around on. I would have brought the owl, but he escaped last week.
    23:45 – For five days I pushed my cat around in a pram, because it had sprained three of its ankles.
    26:27 – As a teenager, I used to terrorise my neighbourhood with a game I invented called “Theft and Shrubbery”.
    31:45 – This is Michael, and after cutting his hair, I got a job on a campsite as a hairdresser.
    37:54 – I have a digeridoo suspended from a tree in my back garden so when the wind blows in a certain direction, it parps soothing sounds of the outback through my bedroom window.
    41:34 – I recently had to charm a spider out of my shoe by tooting a flute at it.
    45:35 – I can break an apple in half with my bare hands.


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  2. Axl Rosé says:

    Cheers Thor.

    Have you ever slept wearing a nicotine patch?  gives you wild dreams.


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  3. Indolent Indolent says:

    Gab in New Cat –

    SA Backflip on the Truckies Vaccines

    South Australia has just announced that they will drop vaccine requirements for interstate truckies delivering.

    The Advertiser warned the jab rule would make truckies walk.

    https://www.reignitedemocracyaustralia.com.au/sa-truckies/


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  4. kaysee says:

    johanna says:

    September 4, 2021 at 5:20 pm

    Another whinge, but a fair one, I reckon.

    For those of us who have not yet succumbed to mobility aids, doing the weekly shop has become a very painful trial.

    Like all the other priorities of yesterday, the disabled have been crushed by the COVID steamroller.

    It is a fact not a whinge.

    There are many of us who go to the shopping centre due to necessity. I noted in my shopping centre that seating has either been removed or marked with red crosses. The gulag gatekeepers have no idea of the real world or the impact of their decisions.

    Why would they care? They live in a world that differs from the mere plebs.


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  5. Delta A says:

    Carpe, you’ve been a champ with those little babies.

    If you’re wearing out, I’m available to nano-sit for a few hours, as long as they’re all toilet trained and have no anti-social behaviours*.

    *I’m also a trained nano-wriggler behaviourist. Help is available if needed. Please check the website for details and fees. (Discounts apply.)

     


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  6. calli says:

    Yes.  They’ve “Danger Taped” all the seats off at my local shops too.

    Four cases.  All quarantined.

    But fear!  Apparently the virus can sense its victims sitting.  Clever bugger.


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  7. kaysee says:

    Hundreds of Victorian ambulance paramedics decline COVID-19 vaccine

    《 AMA president Omar Khorshid says any healthcare workers who are anti-vaxxers should get another job. 》

    The healthcare sector is short staffed on medical professionals and the problem will get worse, especially in aged care, where there will be a serious shortage.

    And the genius AMA president is suggesting the qualified professionals that they have should get another job if they do not want some concoction to be jabbed into their body.


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  8. Delta A says:

    Timothy Neilson says:
    September 4, 2021 at 6:34 pm

    Very well said indeed, Timothy.


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  9. srr says:

    Before I binge watch the final season of, “Mr. Inbetween”, here’s some shorts by Nash EgertonScott Ryan‘s genius partner in bringing, “The Magician”, to greater life as a series –

    1 – Spider
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmbv8kevQ-E&t=1s


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  10. mh says:

    Channel 7 media

    behind the scenes

    ***

    Well done that truckie for highlighting that the msm are full of shit.


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  11. mh says:

    Aged care ‘catastrophe’ as ‘plenty’ of nurses don’t want jab
    A breakaway Queensland nurses union has warned there will be “catastrophe” if the September 16 deadline for mandatory vaccination in the aged care sector isn’t extended or stopped.


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  12. Indolent Indolent says:

    This is really encouraging. Large groups of essential workers putting their health above other considerations.  Let Gladys nurse the sick, drive the trucks and the ambulances.  She’s just so versatile.


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  13. mh says:

    Dan World
    Southbank Towers resident tests positive, hundreds ordered to get tested
    All residents of Southbank Towers, at 83 Queensbridge Street, have been ordered to get tested and isolate until a negative result.


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  14. srr says:

    Sorry, they’re the wrong segments for Part 2 but it is lots more Bob Mortimer.
    His smile is contagious & stories delightful, just what’s needed in this age of evil stupid –

    New segment: Bob Mortimer, the Cockroach King 
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCO58mt3TFA


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  15. srr says:

    Mortimerian Tales – Bob Mortimer on Would I Lie to You? – Part 2 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bWt__tV-Zg


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  16. Carpe Jugulum says:

    Delta A says:

    September 4, 2021 at 6:54 pm

        Carpe, you’ve been a champ with those little babies.

        If you’re wearing out, I’m available to nano-sit for a few hours, as long as they’re all toilet trained and have no anti-social behaviours*.

    Thank you for the offer, I would like to take Lady Jugulum out for dinner tomorrow.

    They are toilet trained, and by anti-social behaviour, does feasting on the bodies of door to door sales critters count?


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  17. Ruprecht Ruprecht says:

    Wasn’t it Robin Williams who uttered those immortal words, nano nano ?


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  18. Ruprecht Ruprecht says:

    Wait till you find out about morgellons, Bird.


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  19. Carpe Jugulum says:

    Thor Rium says:

    September 4, 2021 at 6:22 pm

    So have you opened up to the reality of you being a degenerate idiot yet Carpe?  Its all on video dopey.

    I’m on video, cool. I hope they got my good side. Did the Nano Wrigglers look good on camera?


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  20. Boambee John says:

    **mh says:
    September 4, 2021 at 6:33 pm

    Check out the the top banner on the front page of The Times

    https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/ea33ce13221f2cf94f3685ec9cae94ca**

    Where are all the PC types who used to tell us that we were losing our reputation internationally, and that they are ashamed to be Australian?

    Gone to silence every one?


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  21. Neil says:

    Another reason i like John Howard.

    He sent in the troops to get East Timor their independence.

    Gough Whitlam/labor gave away East Timor in the early 1970’s. Howard sent in the troops and got East Timor their independence.


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  22. cohenite says:

    ” You’ll probably find out that her mother was groovy but one of her kids has two heads and a grand-child runs down hallways on all fours barking.”

     

    Don’t be like biden bird, don’t plagiarize; that’s the plot from a famous movie. It won an academy award. A kibitzer of your talent doesn’t need to steal ideas.


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  23. Ruprecht Ruprecht says:

    I feel sorry for the large bogan crash tackled on the footpath recently

    “which shows Nadia Bartel snorting what is believed to be an illegal substance at a party amid Melbourne’s lockdown. During the state’s daily Covid-19 press conference on Saturday the minister said the incident was a matter for police to decide if Bartel would be charged but ‘serves as a warning to all of us’. ‘It’s not good that anyone flouts the rules, it makes it more dangerous for the entire community, it makes it more likely that these sorts of restrictions will be in place for longer,’ Pakula said.”


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  24. Steve trickler says:

    kaysee@4:36

    Things we learn.

    Cheers.

     

     


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  25. Steve trickler says:

    🤣

    “Well yes I did”

    Avi:

    I ❤️ my haters most

     


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  26. Axl Rosé says:

    After last night’s AFL game in Perth

     

    Should we ever have a Nuremberg 2.0 over this Covid crime, the person/s responsible for the directive and authorisation of that need to be dealt with.


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  27. Eyrie says:

    “Gough Whitlam/labor gave away East Timor in the early 1970’s”

     

    Yes because even Gough Whitlam wasn’t stupid enough to want the communist  People’s Republic of East Timor complete with Russian naval base in the mid 1970’s with the Cold War in full swing.

    In 1999 John Howard proved what a fool he really was. Once we had the troops there and the Fretelin communist gang had returned from Africa where they sat out the resistance, they should have had a visit at 3am and been given the choice – we can kill you here and now or you can come with us, be sent to Australia and you will live out your lives with no political activity and no public statements – your choice – whaddaya say?

    Followed by an apology to Indonesia and a donation of say $500 million to them.


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  28. mh says:

    Check out the the top banner on the front page of The Times

    https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/ea33ce13221f2cf94f3685ec9cae94ca**

    Where are all the PC types who used to tell us that we were losing our reputation internationally, and that they are ashamed to be Australian?
    ***

    That reputation was never in danger due to the rest of the world never paying attention to anything Australia says or does. Pure leftist beat up.
    Today, our reputation really is being shredded. The world is finally looking at us, and it’s with a mix of astonishment, ridicule, and a few ‘poor bastards’ thrown in.


    Australia painted as a ‘dystopian nightmare’ as footage goes viral

    2,513,924 views
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPK1fwJ_WwE


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  29. Neil says:

    “””””””””””Yes because even Gough Whitlam wasn’t stupid enough to want the communist  People’s Republic of East Timor complete with Russian naval base in the mid 1970’s with the Cold War in full swing.”””””””””””‘

     

    I have no idea what you are talking about.

     

    Fact is Howard got East Timor their independence after Whitlam/ALP sold them out to Indonesia


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  30. mh says:

    Trickler, the first comment was what I was thinking:

    ‘This poor woman left Russia and found herself living in a police state.’


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  31. kaysee says:

    Israel should be the model country used to promote the wonders of being vaxxed.

    Israel is now the world’s Covid hotspot:

    《 Israel recorded 1,892 cases per million people on Wednesday — nearly 0.2% of entire population in single day
    Despite being one of the most vaccinated nations in world, country is in midst of an unprecedented new wave
    Israel has become the Covid capital of the world despite leading the charge on vaccines, in a clear warning sign that Britain, the US and other highly-immunised nations are still vulnerable to another wave. 》

    How good is your maths? Israel records 1892 cases/million.

    So, in Australia, with 25 million, we would need to have around  45,000 cases in a single day?

    How many cases do we have? Are the lockdowns justified?


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  32. cohenite says:

    “Fact is Howard got East Timor their independence after Whitlam/ALP sold them out to Indonesia”

    East Timor should have got nothing; by giving ET their “independence” little johnnie gave away about $100billion worth of oil and gas and set the scene for the chunks who now own ET and New Guinea.


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  33. cohenite says:

    Bird, it’s the Exorcist and it’s not 2 heads  but a twisting head.

    Head turning scene from The Exorcist – YouTube

    This movie can be now understood as a prediction of the havoc wreaked by gender diversity.


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  34. Carpe Jugulum says:

    Good Evening Troops

    Time to put the Nano Wrigglers to bed, they are so cute when they sleep.

    *Woookada Widdle Faces*

    I’m such a proud pet owner.


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  35. I’m such a proud pet owner.

    ___________________________________

     

    Doing a great job, there, Carpe.

    And, Delta, cheers for offering to take over when needed!


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  36. mh says:

    Aussie Cossack’s Russian partner is our Melania.


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  37. kaysee says:

    Mixed Bag  ∘◦∘◦ ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐶ

    One


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  38. candy says:

    I hope your little ones have some soft of gift for you tomorrow Carpe for Father’s Day.

     


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  39. Neil says:

    “”””””””””””East Timor should have got nothing; by giving ET their “independence” little johnnie gave away about $100billion worth of oil and gas and set the scene for the chunks who now own ET and New Guinea.”””””””””””

     

    On leftie sites they say Howard stole the oil and gas from East Timor. And that is why Howard fought for East Timor independence.

    I must admit i could not be in politics. Too many crazy people who think they know everything. And also make false comments. Your comments say a lot about what you are as a person.


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  40. Knuckle Dragger says:

    ‘East Timor should have got nothing; by giving ET their “independence” little johnnie gave away about $100billion worth of oil and gas and set the scene for the chunks who now own ET and New Guinea.’

    Of course, this is undeniably correct.

    He had to have known exactly what he was doing.  Shameful little man.


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  41. PeterW says:

    All else being equal, a Nation’s claim to the sea bed is usually considered to include its continental shelf. It is not Australia’s fault that our shelf extends 3/4 of the way to Timor.

    If they don’t like that, they should take it up with God, who created the supposed discrepancy.


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  42. Baba says:

    On leftie sites they say Howard stole the oil and gas from East Timor. And that is why Howard fought for East Timor independence.

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    The continental shelf doesn’t lie.


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  43. Neil says:

    “””””””””He had to have known exactly what he was doing.  Shameful little man.”””””

     

    Howard got East Timor their independence.

    You need to look in the mirror when you call somebody shameful


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  44. Baba says:

    Howard got East Timor their independence.

    **********

    Howard delivered East Timor to the mestizo Portuguese kleptocrats.


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  45. Indolent Indolent says:

    Despite being one of the most vaccinated nations in world, country is in midst of an unprecedented new wave

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

    The bigger point is that the vast majority of cases and, I believe deaths, are among the vaccinated.

    Status / Gab Social


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  46. Steve trickler says:

    On the piss with Babushkas!

    I Got Drunk With Babushkas 🍷


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  47. cohenite says:

    “Your comments say a lot about what you are as a person.”

    Well of course they do you fucking idiot.


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  48. Neil says:

    “”””He had to have known exactly what he was doing.  Shameful little man.”””

     

    Gough Whitlam/Labor gave East Timor to Indonesia.

    Howard/Liberals sent in the troops and got East Timor their independence

    What is wrong with that??

     

    So you think it would be better if East Timor was part of Indonesia??


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  49. Indolent Indolent says:

    California – Airline employees for medical freedom.

    Status / Gab Social


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  50. Knuckle Dragger says:

    ‘So you think it would be better if East Timor was part of Indonesia??’

     

    Of course it would have.  It would have been a better, richer, closer Bali.

    But no.  He may as well have given it to Cuba.


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  51. Axl Rosé says:

    Mad game of footy.


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  52. pete m says:

    F the AFL umpires


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  53. Neil says:

    “””””Of course it would have.  It would have been a better, richer, closer Bali.”””

     

    Ok you think Howard was wrong getting East Timor their independence.

     

    How does East Timor getting independence mean we gave away $100B?

     

    On leftie sites they say Howard stole billions from East Timor


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  54. chrisl says:

    Every single Saturday is Father’s Day


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  55. Knuckle Dragger says:

    ‘On leftie sites they say Howard stole billions from East Timor’

    They say that on every site, because it’s accurate.


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  56. mh says:

    Shit just got real

    ‘The TV Week Logie Awards have been cancelled for the second year in a row due to the coronavirus pandemic.

    The 62nd awards were due to take place at The Star Gold Coast on November 28 however Australia’s Delta outbreak – that will likely keep borders shut until late this year – has seen the awards pushed again.’


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  57. mh says:

    NZ ‘lone wolf’ terrorist revealed
    The Isis-inspired attacker behind a supermarket knife rampage in New Zealand has been named — but Jacinda Ardern has said she will never say his name.
    ***

    His name is Ahamed Aathill Mohammad Samsudeen.

    Yes, best not attempt it Jacinda. If you get it wrong they’ll call you racist.


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  58. Franx says:

    Easy Timor  – and Gareth Gareth ,

     


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  59. Neil says:

    Knuckles- you say this

     

    “””On leftie sites they say Howard stole billions from East Timor’

    They say that on every site, because it’s accurate.””

     

    Cohenite say this

    “””East Timor should have got nothing; by giving ET their “independence” little johnnie gave away about $100billion worth of oil and gas and set the scene for the chunks who now own ET and New Guinea.””””

     

    So did Howard give away billions according to Cohenite or steel billions from East Timor according to you??


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  60. Western Bulldogs scrape home by a point.  Finally one of my bets pay off.


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  61. Rockdoctor says:

    Hmmm, East Timor or Timor Timur or Timor Leste. Friend served there 3 times, I have been there on business and a family member has worked there. Corrupt is an understatement even for the area it is in. Alkatiri & Ruak are in with the Chicoms big time especially out near Port Hera. Gusmao doesn’t have the heart for it and Horta is getting on. Lost cause IMO.


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  62. Knuckle Dragger says:

    Neil.

    Howard was an unimaginable flog.  This is beyond question.

    Aside from gifting billions to what was effectively the East Timorese Mafia (Fretilin) he then stayed way too long in the top job, refused to honour an agreement to stand aside after achieving certain things, and in the process condemned this country to Rudd, Gillard and then Rudd again.

    We have not recovered, and will never recover from that gigantic kaleidoscope of fuckwittery.


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  63. mh says:

    I know people here like to yank Neil’s chain.

    But the Morrison/Frydenberg government is ten times worse than Howard, Rudd, Gillard, Abbott governments. They are truly fvcking awful by every metric.


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  64. Timothy Neilson says:

    “How good is your maths? Israel records 1892 cases/million.

    So, in Australia, with 25 million, we would need to have around  45,000 cases in a single day?

    How many cases do we have? Are the lockdowns justified?”

    **********

    kaysee, the point is that Maximum Leader and the rest of the clown troupe are selling us lockdowns on the basis that the vaccines are the US cavalry riding to the rescue of the wagon train, and the utter destruction of people’s lives caused by lockdowns is therefore justified by the return to utopia that we’ll have when everyone is injected with experimental substances.

    (That’s the story now, replacing the former truth that Maximum Leader is God Almighty himself who could “eradicate” the virus by imposing lockdowns.)

    The Israeli statistics show that injecting people with experimental substances does not stop the virus from spreading. Sooner or later the virus will do what the virus does. What’s needed is to take advantage of the fact that in warm weather respiratory viruses are relatively benign, so apart from protecting the elderly and vulnerable (including with vaccines to the extent that they alleviate symptoms) we should be throwing Australia open during spring and allow the inevitable to happen during the least harmful time for it.


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  65. Axl Rosé says:

    But the Morrison/Frydenberg government is ten times worse than Howard, Rudd, Gillard, Abbott governments.

     

    Could you imagine Howard, Rudd or Abbott going AWOL and giving the states carte blanche like that dog traitor?


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  66. mh says:

    We can’t rely on US military might, and our own is a joke
    Australians have little sense of how grave their strategic circumstances potentially are. Our ability to inflict pain and cost on any serious aggressor is almost zero.

    By GREG SHERIDAN
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    Inflict pain on an aggressor? That would be anti lockdown protestors!
    Or those strange looking people in SW Sydney not obeying curfews. Send in the troops!


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  67. FlyingPigs says:

    The Last Australian Prime Minister was PM John Gorton.

    Everyone else was and is a UN shill.


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  68. FlyingPigs says:

    Neil

    Did John Howard get the law changed to protect the Incompetence of his brother?


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  69. mh says:

    Look at this weak, insipid crap from Morrison. Just FOAD
    Interstate travel back for Christmas, PM says
    Victorians should be able to reunite with loved ones across the country by the end of the year, according to Prime Minister Scott Morrison.


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  70. FlyingPigs says:

    *******Neil******************

    Did Peter Costello not expand the welfare state beyond belief?

    Family A… Family B…

    Who the fuck you think set it up for Rudd/Gillard/Rudd ?

    Labor/Greens come into power to do what LNP can’t do and LNP come into power to do what Labor/Greens cannot do.

    Do you know that the only so called ‘sovereign fund’ attributed to Australia was set up by Peter Costello and it is called the Australia Fund whose only purpose is to pay pensions to Canberra Bureaucrats?

    Fuck off Neil.


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  71. FlyingPigs says:

    *******************Neil*************

    John Howard is a useless turd.

    He did nothing for East Timor except bring in his UN overlords. despicable.

     


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  72. FlyingPigs says:

    Nowadays, The Turks would send out road crossing monitors and have speed cameras to make sure you were not going too fast.

    Two steps from hell

    https://freedomaustralia.freeforums.net/thread/1297/steps


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  73. mh says:

    LIVE: Protest against COVID restrictions held in Paris​
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5139_K1X0Vw


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  74. FlyingPigs says:

    **************Neil****************

    Is it not fabulous that old people will die from lack of electricity?

    John Howard and Peter Costello and Greg Hunt started that.


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  75. FlyingPigs says:

    Is it not fabulous that folk can stop old folk from gathering wood on the side of the road.


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  76. FlyingPigs says:

    ****************Neil****************

    John Howard is far worse than Whitlam.

    who would take guns from us?

    who made the current shit fest such as Andrews?

    who  shat upon Australian Soldiers that Howard committed?

    John Howard and Peter Costello should be thrown out to Afghanistan


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  77. FlyingPigs says:

    ***************Neil******************

    tell us again how Australia is a Liberal Democracy governed by the benign????


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  78. Mark A says:

    The best bakeries around Australia as nominated by you.
    Would you agree?


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  79. Franx says:

    Am in moderation re Howard.


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  80. Neil says:

    “””””””””Aside from gifting billions to what was effectively the East Timorese Mafia (Fretilin) “”””””””””””

     

    Now it is getting confusing. You said Howard stole from East Timor. Now you say he gifted them billions. Which is it??

     

    “”””””””and in the process condemned this country to Rudd, Gillard and then Rudd again.””””””””””

    Australia wanted Rudd. That is why they voted for him. Having Costello as PM would have made no difference.


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  81. FlyingPigs says:

    ***************Neil***************

    which John Howard and his mate Peter Costello absolutely destroyed sovereign property rights in Australia with their un-voted for licking the dick of their UN Kyoto crap?


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  82. FlyingPigs says:

    ************Neil************

    do you think Peter Costello is infected with nano wrigglers or just snorts gypsum?


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