Open Thread – Tuesday 17 August 2021

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  1. calli says:

    Lol.  I was starting to worry about you guys.  Abducted by the nano wrigglers.


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  2. mh says:

    Alexander Soros, PhD
    @AlexanderSoros

    In Pelosi we trust! Was good seeing
    @SpeakerPelosi
    this weekend

    https://twitter.com/AlexanderSoros/status/1435970966476267520?s=20


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  3. …and a mandarine-&-cream water-cooled T3 on the run home.

     

    No T1 to complete the set. 🙃


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  4. Axl Rosé says:

    The nano-wrigglers in Adam’s blog configurement abducted me.  A SNAFU caused by registering.  Lesson is if it aint broke don’t fix it.

    Using sock email hence no gravatar.


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  5. mh says:

    Beijing: Hong Kong police raided a museum dedicated to the Tiananmen Square massacre on Thursday, confiscating photographs and displays.

    As the public looked on, officers hauled out boxes of objects relating to June 4, 1989, when the Chinese military killed thousands of peaceful students.


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  6. Steve trickler says:

    You’ll need 45 minutes. I case you missed it, it is worth checking out.

    Peter Santenello:

    “Quite often the Amish and Mennonite are misunderstood or a mystery to most of us outsiders. Join me in an enlightening conversation as we talk about relationships, the use of technology, what they fear, and how they see the rest of America. A truly eye-opening experience.”

    Invited To Amish Dinner 🇺🇸

     


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  7. Shy Ted says:

    Dog sees Convid.  

    best meme of the week ahs been the guy with the “Cov 1984” placard. Might have to cut his soma rations.


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  8. Has dash-Çat lost its critical mass?


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  9. mh says:

    ‘NSW recorded 1542 new cases.’

    So lockdowns, curfews, masks, vaccines, police beating people up, shutting playgrounds, doesn’t stop the spread.

    Righto.

     


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  10. Terry Pedersen says:

    So, Glad the Loudhailer, Keeper of the Iron Pyrite Standard, the Typhoid Mary of COVID-19, has decided that she and her Ministers don’t want to face scrutiny over the really bad situation that is imminent. From next week the daily COVID updates will be presented only by video link and only by NSW Health staff.

    What an absolute shower Gladys is. She failed to lock down Bondi and Waverley LGA and thereby allowed the virus to spread to Greater Sydney and the rest of NSW and to the other States, especially Victoria. She should be drummed out of office.


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  11. caveman says:

    Do these cases in NSW include people who have had the jab?  Cause they double dipping if so.


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  12. Axl Rosé says:

    So, Glad the Loudhailer, Keeper of the Iron Pyrite Standard,

     

    Been the same post for months now.


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  13. Axl Rosé says:

    So, Glad the Loudhailer, Keeper of the Iron Pyrite Standard,

     

    Same post for months now.


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  14. Professor Higgins says:

    ” ..
    Nelson_Kidd-Players says:
    September 10, 2021 at 11:22 am

    Has dash-Çat lost its critical mass?

    ..”

    No.

    It’s the aether non-believers.

    And nano push-gravity.

     


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  15. Steve trickler says:

    I’ve got no good words for the cops. Zippo. Family members are included. For the record, if family on the force are doing this in QLD, I’ll kick his head in the next time we meet. He’s been warned via his mum.

    Sick to death of these pricks.

    Real Rukshan:

    Sydney man has cardiac medical episode after police arrest him for not wearing a mask.


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  16. Terry Pedersen says:

    So, Glad the Loudhailer, Keeper of the Iron Pyrite Standard,

     Same post for months now.

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

    Nope. Please lift your game, old man.The Typhoid Mary of COVID-19 has been added to her title. And I haven’t previously said “She should be drummed out of office”. Nor have I shown the stats today.

    She and Hazzard and Barilaro should be excoriated by the media for announcing that things will be much worse next week, so they are going to run away and hide.


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  17. jo says:

    Nelson_Kidd-Players says:
    September 10, 2021 at 10:06 am

    Hi, Calli! Sent from a Bunnings click-&-collect queue…                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Bunnings is so disorganised. Ordered stuff, still hadn’t replied after a week. when I grizzled they said 1 item not available. Item still listed on website. When I went to pick up the other stuff nobody knows what’s going on except I got lucky with young Pacific Islander girl. After she brought the stuff out I asked her in a loud voice in hearing distance of the other staff “how come you’re the only one who knows how to do her job”. Evil looks ensued.


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  18. jo says:

    “excoriated”, is that a simile for shot on sight with heads on pike.


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  19. jo says:

    Higgins it has been noted that light passing SoreBum’s head is bent indicating a black hole.


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  20. Axl Rosé says:

    Nope. Please lift your game, old man.The Typhoid Mary of COVID-19 has been added to her title. And I haven’t previously said “She should be drummed out of office”. Nor have I shown the stats today.

     

    LOL OK. So apart from that it is the same post for months now.


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  21. Axl Rosé says:

    Rex and JC at it again.

    h/t Thor.


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  22. Terry Pedersen says:

    LOL OK. So apart from that it is the same post for months now.

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

    LOL. Only the first line. And only for 3 months. So far. Stay tuned for next week’s wording.


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  23. mh says:

    Look at this shit at the Age *

    ‘The historic moment has arrived for Novak Djokovic. Some time very soon, the world No.1 is going to affirm his record as the most successful male tennis player of all time, probably the greatest male or female, and well in the argument for the outstanding individual athlete of any kind, ever.

    The accolade comes, often, through gritted teeth and with watering eyes. Djokovic’s greatness is acknowledged, what’s more, by the millions who have stopped watching tennis because they can’t stomach him. Nobody has done more in their sport while doing less for their sport. It’s a bizarre but compelling legacy.’

    Because he believes tennis players should be able to make their own health choices.

    The Joker is the only reason I watch any tennis.

    (* quelle surprise)


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  24. Axl Rosé says:

    The accolade comes, often, through gritted teeth and with watering eyes. Djokovic’s greatness is acknowledged, what’s more, by the millions who have stopped watching tennis because they can’t stomach him. Nobody has done more in their sport while doing less for their sport. It’s a bizarre but compelling legacy.’

     

    Calling that shit gives shit a bad name.  Add Malcolm Knox to the list.


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  25. Professor Higgins says:

    Thor.

    How goes it?

    Not stuck between two nano push-gravity fields I hope?

    Getting enough aether in your diet?


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  26. Robert Mc says:

    “aether” or, “naether” nor.

    The dregs from Dover’s Catholaxy are back attempting to bait the bear.

    The more things change …


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  27. Professor Higgins says:

    ” …
    Thor Rium says:
    September 10, 2021 at 12:52 pm

    The double slit experiment refutes the existence of photons and proves the existence of the aether …”

    The double slit experiment is hocus-pocus Thor.

    Don’t be silly.

    Admit that you are a failed economist sad-sack and try to do something useful with your miserable life.

    Say it.

    “I am not a physicist’s arsehole. I am a sad failed economist with delusions of adequacy”.

    Say it. You’ll feel better.


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  28. Runnybum says:

    Hello biggles, how goes the A340?


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  29. Professor Higgins says:

    Now there is a good project for Thor to cut his teeth on.

    Thor.

    MH370.

    Where is it?

    Show your workings.


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  30. Bons says:

    What is preventing this clown from being drop kicked.

    He is more damaging to reasoned and friendly exchange than was Numbers,

    Which reminds me – what happened to that psycho?


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  31. Professor Higgins says:

    Who would you like drop-kicked Bons?


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  32. Rex Anger says:

    @ Bons-

     

    Numbers got bored and left.

     

    He still posts the obligatory leftist pap at his own site every so often. But nothing more…


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  33. Steve trickler says:

    Well done, Rebel News. They got in via legal.

    All these political candidates are a disgrace.

    All of Rebel News journalists’ questions to party leaders at 2021 Canadian French-language debate


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  34. Runnybum says:

    Hey biggles, you still voting for the uniparty next feral election?


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  35. jo says:

    Just joined UAP. My AEC enrolment had my address truncated.


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  36. Runnybum says:

    Darwin at work…..hope it works.

    https://twitter.com/TonyH091963/status/1436041699860566016


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  37. jo says:

    Runny loved the bit down further about Danes making muzzies work for 37 hrs before any benefits. Can you imagine our crap govt doing the same.


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  38. Rorschach says:

    Darwin at work…..hope it works.

     

    Do not EVER post shit like that.  You’re a flaming Moron  Peter.   This is intentionally trying to destroy the forum ad get it banned.

     

    ADAM – GET RID OF THIS NOW PLEASE.

     


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  39. Runnybum says:

    Rorarse, I ain’t peter, but do me a favour….go fuck yourself.


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  40. Runnybum says:

    Rorearse, if you are afraid of the world it is best you hide from reality & get under your bed with biggles you softarse twat.


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  41. Professor Higgins says:

    Rorschach

    One could say that Peter Bundy is a … dare I say it … blogwrecker!


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  42. Runnybum says:

    I won’t be back Adam.


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  43. Axl Rosé says:

    Taken to Diego Garcia more likely.


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  44. DM OF WA says:

    I have had enough.

    Can people stop posting nonsense here about quantum mechanics and special relativity?  Instead of posting on this thread go and read an undergraduate physics text or watch some Youtube videos if reading is too hard.  E.g. Some of the MIT lectures are really good.

    And the rest of you: PLEASE DO NOT FEED THE TROLL.

    The original double slit experiment with light performed by Thomas Young in the early 19th century demonstrated the wave nature of light.

    The photoelectric effect demonstrates the particle of nature of light; the explanation of which Einstein won a Nobel prize in 1905.

    A diffraction experiment with electrons, performed by Davisson and Germer in 1927, demonstrated the wave nature of matter.  However, the much discussed double-slit experiment with electrons is typically a thought experiment popularized by Richard Feynman in his lectures on quantum mechanics and is rarely conducted in the real world.

    The non-existence of the aether was demonstrated by Michelson and Morley in 1887 when they determined  the speed of light was independent of the motion of the Earth and subsequently explained by Einstein in his theory of special relativity in 1905.

     

     

     

     

     

     


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  45. Runnybum says:

    Shove biggles up your arse  🙂


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  46. Carpe Jugulum says:

    Time to let the Nano Wrigglers out of their holding pen

    They grow up so quickly


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  47. Carpe Jugulum says:

    Runnybum says:
    September 10, 2021 at 5:23 pm

    I won’t be back Adam.

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

    Do hang around, the main event is just getting started.


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  48. Professor Higgins says:

    Bye bye, Peter Bundy.

    Don’t let the door … etc etc.


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  49. Professor Higgins says:

    ” …
    DM OF WA says:
    September 10, 2021 at 5:31 pm

    I have had enough.

    Can people stop posting nonsense here about quantum mechanics and special relativity? … ”

    Why the plural “people” DM?

    It seems that only one person is dumping a stream of ill-informed sci-fi tripe on here.

    That word be Thor, God ‘o Funder.

    Don’t be shy.

    Name him.

     

     


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  50. mh says:

    Craig Kelly MP
    @CraigKellyMP

    2h

    So we finally have an official announcement about arrival of a “New World Order”. Where unelected health bureaucrats take control & decide where you can eat, when you can get a haircut & even how much beer you can drink. Time to restore DEMOCRACY. #VoteOUTGladys #VoteOUTLibs


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  51. Neil says:

    Forget the Physics.

     

    I just want to know when i can get a haircut. It is driving me nuts. I am sure in WW2 Europe you could get a haircut and see your Dentist.


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  52. Rex Anger says:

    Grigory is having a particularly severe attack of Relevance Deprivation Syndrome of late.

     

    Unsurprising, as he cannot be his usual griefing self when a stronger-willed and more prolific troll wrests Centre Stage (and all the attendant attention) from him on a nightly basis.

     

    Another (curiously) valid reason for kicking Bird off the Cat- Grigory is unable to properly air his socks…

     

    #Won’tSomebodyPLEEEAAASEthinkOfTheTrolls?


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  53. mh says:

    I’m not sure who is more annoying, Graeme or Leigh Lowe who feeds him.


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  54. Ruprecht Ruprecht says:

    Faulty droppings and a Faulty Friend flounce ? What gives?


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  55. mh says:

    Neil, harden the fvck up pal.


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  56. Professor Higgins says:

    Interesting, that Ruprecht.

    Very interesting.


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  57. Steve trickler says:

    The series continues. Highly recommended you start from the beginning if this channel is new to you.

    Zachary Denman:

    The Trickster is the archetypal character who can be dark or light, but they will always attempt to get what they want. Often they are the Joker, using wit rather than strength or authority, to manipulate a situation in their favour…

    Human Trickster | Dystopia or Utopia | Short Film

     


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  58. Professor Higgins says:

    Is Rex Anger also Leigh Lowe.

    In any case, a little bit of Nazi hunting is always good value, whoever is doing it.


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  59. Professor Higgins says:

    This site’s own guidance on trolls:-

     
    Trolls

    There are a whole bunch of theories about dealing with trolls. The most well-known being that you shouldn’t feed the trolls. Here are some others.

    Be vicious to trolls.  It’s not like you’re depriving anybody of food or oxygen.
    Be capricious.  If you’re consistent, they’ll know where the line is; if they know where the line is, they’ll skate to the edge of it.
    Be indifferent to trollish suffering. Being called a facist (not a typo: most trolls can’t spell) who’s suppressing free speech* is not a cause for concern; it’s semantically equivalent to “You’re doing your job.”
    Be obnoxious. Trolls do it because it amuses them to do it.  Being made fun of is not amusing, particularly when you can enforce a ban.  Remember: they need your site more than your site needs them.


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  60. Professor Higgins says:

    I would say Rex/Leigh and Carpe are doing an excellent job of sticking to all four guidance points on trolls.

    Well done, lads.


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  61. Neil says:

    MH

     

    I want a haircut. Is that a crime???

     

    What worries me is what is next?? I have bowed the knee and will get the jab next Thursday. I want to see my elderly Mother and i hope taking the jab will help me see her.

     

    What amazes me is how obedient everybody is. So now we can see why the Germans followed you no who.

     

    This is not going to end but will get worse and worse


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  62. Black Ball says:

    Afternoon all.

    So looking to book a ticket to Bendigo for bowls and beer. I note on the Vline sire that some services will be affected due to a shortage of drivers of trains and buses apparently affected by covid-19. What a country! 🤦‍♂️


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  63. Rex Anger says:

    “Is Rex Anger also Leigh Lowe.”

     

    *******

    Rex Anger is LEGION… 🤪


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  64. Rex Anger says:

    “Rex Anger is LEGION… 🤪”

     

    … At least according to Graeme, anyway.

     

    This Anger is fairly certain he is his own discrete individual.

     

    (Sometimes discreet too, as the situation requires).


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  65. Professor Higgins says:

    I heard that BB.

    I hate to be a conspiracy theorist, but I did wonder.

    The day after they lift some restrictions in rural Vicco and they were thumping the table about not escaping from Melbournibad, the trains are cancelled.

    Exposed 200 on the lunch room.

    How long do these fuckers spend in the lunch room?

    It is V-Line I suppose.

     


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  66. Black Ball says:

    Well yes Professor. So rather than spacious trains, buses will be substituted.


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  67. Professor Higgins says:

    Well, whoever you Rex, good work enforcing site rules on trolls.

    Well done, you!


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  68. Rex Anger says:

    The day after they lift some restrictions in rural Vicco and they were thumping the table about not escaping from Melbournibad, the trains are cancelled.

    Exposed 200 on the lunch room.

    How long do these fuckers spend in the lunch room?

    It is V-Line I suppose.”

    ********

     

    Sounds just a bit TOO convenient (let alone fantastical) to be true.

     

    Especially when you consider that you have several dozen services crisscrossing the state at any one time on a more-or-less 24hr basis, 7 days a week, each requiring between 2 and 4 crewmembers and reliefs waiting at particular locations and extra standby guys for fatigue management purposes and emergencies, etc.

     

    Granted I work in freight in a different part of the country, but you do not just get 200-odd drivers all congregating idly in a single place at any one time unless there is a strike or a mandated mass meeting for which all other work is stopped. It’s just not how the industry works.

     

    You might get a few dozen guys signing on/off at a big depot around a major shift change, maybe. But not 200 at once.

     

    But it is V-Line. And a government-owned transport entity (with a suitably loyal union) can be directed to do things that a provate compqny might very seriously baulk at…


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  69. Professor Higgins says:

    Whoever you are …


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  70. Professor Higgins says:

    Rex.

    There might have been 25 in the sheds.

    Word gets around and 200 suddenly recall being there.

    Bingo!

    Free holidays.


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  71. Steve trickler says:

    Premiered Jul 5, 2020.

    I look back on this now and wonder how many people in these scenes have been pricked with the needle.

    Haunting.

    Rush Hour | London Bridge


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  72. cohenite says:

    I too inhabit a paradigm; a prodigious paradigm where parsimony is pooh-poohed.


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  73. Professor Higgins says:

    How’s that “Do Not Feed the Troll” workin’ for ya, DM OF WA?


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  74. Ruprecht Ruprecht says:

    Oh Lord

     

    Embattled Seven News reporter Georgia Love has been pulled from on-air duties and relegated to the production desk just days after posting a ‘racist’ video on Instagram. The journalist, 33, had sparked backlash on Monday for sharing footage of a cat behind the window of an Asian restaurant and writing: ‘Shop attendant or lunch?!’ She deleted the video an hour later and apologised for causing ‘offence’, but at the time denied the post had any racist ‘insinuation’. Following a workplace investigation, Seven alerted staff via email on Friday that Love had been ‘counselled’ and reassigned to an off-camera role ‘effective immediately’. A Seven spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia: ‘We have addressed this matter internally and disciplinary action has been taken. Seven does not condone this inappropriate conduct and all of our staff have the right to work in a safe, nurturing workplace free from prejudice.’


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  75. calli says:

    cohenite says:
    September 10, 2021 at 6:46 pm

    I too inhabit a paradigm; a prodigious paradigm where parsimony is pooh-poohed.

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

    We’re all broke now.

    Too much generosity to politicians.  Let’s cut them back a bit!


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  76. Rex Anger says:

    I hate to break it to you Graeme, but as at 1500 Eastern Time today, my Nano-Wrigglers had eaten 93.1% of all Aether in the Universe.

     

    I have directed them to leave the remainder alone, so as not to upset the Anti-Gravity researchers too much. They can levitate their Bunsen Burners, bend spoons and explode the occasional goat, but normal Newtonian physics and Einsteinian Special Relativity is resumed.

     

    As per Newton’s Third Law, Graeme, you have brought this upon yourself.

     

    And as further punishment for your intransigence and incessant efforts to upset the Cat (including poor Grigory. How COULD you disrupt and upset poor Grigory? How will he air his skinsuits out now?), my Nano-Wriggler legions have been ordered to excrete deuterium en-masse into every solid, liquid, vaporous and even plasmic water sources on this Earth. Including Antarctica.

     

    No eternal youth for you…

     

    #AetherMakesTheBestFarts

     


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  77. cohenite says:

    Went to buy some cheese today and noticed the cheese formerly known as Coon is now called Cheers. So I said fuck it and bought some chocolate covered peanuts instead.


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  78. cohenite says:

    A Universe full of aether would mean we would be perpetually pissed. On reflection that would explain a lot of human behaviour.


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  79. Rex Anger says:

    It fascinates me, Graeme, how you still cannot point any skeptics of your proclamations to a single piece of evidence for them.

     

    Or do you consider the Scientific Method, research and source attribution to be perfidious J****h inversions as well?

     

     


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  80. Rex Anger says:

    @ Cohenite-

     

    Bega is the better cheese.


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  81. Ruprecht Ruprecht says:

    Who is going to buy a cheese called Cheers


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  82. rosie says:

    Posting that stuff on twitter normally earns a permanent ban. Seems reasonable.

     


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  83. cohenite says:

    “Bega is the better cheese.”

     

    Fuck ’em all; I’ll buy a goat and make my own. Maybe even grow a beard, marry  the goat and join the talifucks.


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  84. Rex Anger says:

    So, it’s all about truth by assertion then, Graeme?

     

    You do know that’s a J****h inversion as well, right?

     

    So, you probably shouldn’t be doing it?


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  85. Rex Anger says:

    “If you are willing to say there are waves where nothing waves…”

    *****

    Welp, given that the Ocean has waves but has never once waved back at you, I think I can be quite justified in saying that, yes…


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  86. egg_ says:

    So, Glad the Loudhailer, Keeper of the Iron Pyrite Standard, the Typhoid Mary of COVID-19, has decided that she and her Ministers don’t want to face scrutiny over the really bad situation that is imminent. From next week the daily COVID updates will be presented only by video link and only by NSW Health staff.

    Rona takes centre stage.


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  87. egg_ says:

    Aether, phlogiston, Higgs boson… all doomed to the dustbin of history*?

    In addition time apparently preceding the “big bang”, a universe may have undergone a contraction to a singularity preceding our own, with remnants of the pre-existing universe traceable in our own.

    YouTube posted on the Cat.

    *Science being a moveable feast.

     

     


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  88. Neil says:

    How come this thread is going for 8000-9000 comments??

     

    I would like to add i want to get a haircut. It is driving me mad. Plus i want to see my dentist.

     

    When a govt shuts down the economy everybody in Public Service should have their salaries halved until everybody can return to work

     

    We are all in this together unless you work for the government


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  89. Steve trickler says:

    John de Lancie. Cool Cat.

    Star Trek: Q’s Lessons

     

     


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  90. Rex Anger says:

    “Its about logic and reason in science.  Where known lies have been forced into the public by the deep state, its about removing these lies and seeing what this implies.”

    *****

    Incorrect, Graeme. You are asserting Gnosis, a ‘special’ esoteric knowledge that only you have and fanatically guard. I am surprised you have not also adopted the asceticism that characterised classical Gnostics back when such occultism was fashionable.

     

    *****

    “There is no wave without a medium.”

    *****

    So how does light (or any other form of radiation) propagate and travel in a vacuum, Graeme? Or has that particular Gnostic revelation not been made to you yet?

     

    *****

    “Being as you are probably working out of Tel Aviv.”

    *****

    I have told you this before, Graeme- I am not the Mossads in your sock drawer, I am the Sayeret Matkals in your salt shaker!

     

    All that <a href=”https://www.nulon.com.au/products/aerosols/start-ya-bastard-instant-engine-starter”>canned diethyl ether</a> you snort when you wake up has not been starting you, but has utterly ruined your faculties…


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  91. mh says:

    Neil says:
    September 10, 2021 at 6:13 pm

    MH

    I want a haircut. Is that a crime???

    ***

    In some states, yes.

     


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  92. Ragu Ragu says:

    I haven’t kept up with this. Thorium, can you please define this aether?


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  93. Rex Anger says:

    “Back in the superior first phase of Catallaxy I was mortified when I found that all these people who I thought were pretty smart were members of the skeptics movement and had absorbed all manner of bullshit.”

    *****

    I.E. They argued back at you and won?


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  94. egg_ says:

    Accelerating Charges Emit Electromagnetic Waves – “Light” – Radio Antennas! | Doc Physics

    Prolly explains why electric and magnetic waves are at right angles but share the same point in time for maxima and minima – i.e. share the same zero crossing point*.

    *Going back to Dr Shiva’s graphs on the fraudulent election.

     

     


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