Hi Cats,
As you can see I have created a copy of the Cat for you to continue to bicker, argue and occasionally make a reasonable point.
I do hope a solution is found with the original Cat but just in case Sinc doesn’t want to transfer the site to a new generation I have built a replica before the closure so we can migrate as many of the community across as possible.
Programming Note: I rushed out the site so there will be bugs. I can get them fixed but did not want perfection to get in the way for progress.
Community Note: Please let as many cats know of the new blog as soon as possible so we can capture the magic of the original. In particular would love for the original posters to continue their great work here.
Ideological Note: I am an infrequent poster but long time reader of the Cat. The discussions there have been a huge part of my own ideological growth on many issues. In particular free speech is key for me so will have a very similar light touch to the original Cat, potentially adopting my one policy on an earlier forum I built: “No D***heads” which is subjective but surprisingly easy to implement.
Website Note: I will run the Cat as close to possible as the original because I don’t believe in re-inventing the wheel. However if the community so wants I am happy to make changes to improve the experience so if you have any ideas let me know. For anything specific hit me up at the contact form, else go nuts in the comments.
wot mh said on the’lympics, JC.
Having said that, yes, of course, Australia is doing well and it’s good to see exponents of some of the least supported sports having success. But with all the money that the country spends on elite sport, there should be some ROI, otherwise what’s the point? On of the chief concerns about spending public money on anything is that the wokest crap ends up being taken up into the management of the thing, including in this case, sport.
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Hmmm had the slash on the wrong side of the “b”.
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LTAFS.
(Leaving The Aviary For Sleep).
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Finally found the new digs. Good to see they didn’t change much. Big thanks to all involved.
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David Elliot, you absolute grub and coward.
Hang your head in shame.
Barren women and fucking zero morale Muppets like this clown are making decisions around family welfare. What a country.
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Andrew Cuomo: Biden says governor should resign over harassment report
Pot calls kettle black.
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Bird?
Who is this one?
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I like the OT because I’m mostly always far too late to the discussion on all the other threads.
But because the OT goes on, it’s interesting and a bit like an adventure. It reminds me of that song in LOTR –
The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way,
Where many paths and errands meet
And so having gone on, it’s easy to pick up something, somewhere or other, or start something else…
Having said that I can’t stay now – I’m off to bed – been a very hectic day and I’m a bit worn out.
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Forgot to post this before retiring:
Random military history.
WWII Japanese Army Ranks (minus the relevant superscript squiggles sorry).
Second-Class Private = Nitohei.
First-Class Private = Ittohei.
Superior Private = Jotohei.
Lance Corporal = Heicho.
Corporal = Gocho.
Sergeant = Gunsho.
Sergeant Major = Socho.
Special Sergeant Major (Regimental Sergeant Major) = Tokumu socho.
Warrant Officer (Administrative duties) = Junshikan.
Second Lieutenant (Platoon Commander) = Sho-i.
First Lieutenant (Platoon Commander) = Chu-i.
Captain (Company commander) = Tai-i.
Major (Battalion commander) = Shosa.
Lieutenant Colonel (Second in command of regiment) = Chusa.
Colonel (Regimental Commander) = Taisa.
Major General (Brigade commander) = Shosho.
Lieutenant General (Division Commander) = Chujo.
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I like how Biden appeared to be totally switched on and sincere when asked if Cuomo should resign.
Cuomo must have thought where the hell has the demented grandpa gone.
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ddydd
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Ladies, and some bike seat sniffers like Dr. Beaugan and Dr.Faustas over at Monty’s.*
Not missing much.
*#note to self# re anyone calling themselves Dr.
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Kalgoorlie’s Diggers and Dealers winding up tonight. A bit of a fizzer without the big guns from OS and interstate, but the skimpies are pretty happy with the local partygoers it would seem. Perth’s new girly car dealers should be rubbing their hands with glee.
Old mate full of singing syrup rang me and advised that there is some very serious money being thrown about for Lithium greenfield operations and exploration.
Treat with caution. Grandiose claims are often made after the third bottle of plonk.
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It’s pretty dandy.
hide in your shell – supertramp – skins (effy stonem)
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Biden is just a mouth piece/delivery bot for the deep state. Cuomo’s usefulness has passed.
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Salty Cracker on the suicide of cop #4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdfWBKMrHFA&pp=sAQA
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Malcolm Roberts on the family home; he does a lot of work but it’s going to be tough for him at the next election:
https://www.facebook.com/100050536897317/videos/219915023391903
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Pedro the Loafer says:
August 4, 2021 at 10:30 pm
What did they say about some of the gold juniors like PNR, AAR, CUL etc
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That poor old lady.
I think he’s trying to convey how much of a Covid “hero” he is.
Covid virtue signalling is usually pretty sick, but this pretty much takes the cake.
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How long before even those reprobates get woke?
These days I see so many disturbing stories in the West Australian business pages featuring WA mining executives spouting politically correct sentiments. Depressing.
Sir Charles Court is rolling in his grave.
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Discharge – Protest and Survive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaYZ4QieIME
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Loafing about in Kununurra. The place is chockers. Enjoyed a flight down to the bungle bungles. Pilot was a switched on 19 year old. Lots of young people working the tours etc and loving it. Plenty of expensive camping rigs …not an ev in sight. Makes it harder to go back to work in 10 days time.
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TE,
Interested in your thoughts on this… I think he does a decent job.
https://catallaxy.wpengine.com/2021/08/from-the-litter-rises-a-new-cat/comment-page-1/#comment-88
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“There was no general vaccine against influenza in 1919-21, only some rare experimental ones. Those were early days in viral recognition.”
This is a perfect example of the brainwashing.
Nobody said or implied that Spanish Flu was caused by flu vaccines specifically but Lizzie felt the need to argue against that anyway. She couldn’t help herself. Vaccines need to be defended no matter what and no matter how.
Anybody can read about the experimental vaccine programs they used at the time – especially on soldiers – and given soldiers were hit the hardest (along with other young adults) and given the often reported symptoms (cytokine storms) are consistent with vaccine injury the idea that they were the main (only?) cause of the so-called Spanish Flu makes sense.
Well it makes sense if you’re not brainwashed.
By the way Bird you have so much to give. Please don’t ruin it by obsessing over Joos.
Like I said, you give people too much credit. If 99.99 per cent of the population is under mass hypnosis then the odds of the 0.01 per cent having anything in common (other than not falling for it themselves) is zero.
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I’m reading Ricardo Bosi’s book “Greatness Awaits You.”
The invention of the “Post-It Note” came about because a scientist at 3M laboratories was trying to develop a super-strong glue and failed. He did invent a weak adhesive that stuck to surfaces, without bonding them tightly. Another 3M scientist saw potential in applying that adhesive to pieces od paper that could be used as bookmarks. He was fed up with losing bookmarks from his Bible at church every Sunday…. (Page 143 – 144, “Greatness Awaits You” Ricardo Bosi.)
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OOOOOH!
Looks like the Starship Booster (4) that was rolled out to the launch tower this morning in Boca Chica is about to be lifted on to the Launch Platform!!!!
History moves fast these days!
I’m watching here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhJRzQsLZGg
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The Spanish flu was not from Spain.
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I always thought Post-It notes were invented by Romy and Michelle.
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Figures.
I am not anti-Bird or yourself. I have an ear for all talk.
When I was at Kapooka in the winter of 1988 there was an Influenza epidemic and the whole place got shut down for three weeks. That was three weeks training lost, and put on hold. They called it quarantine.
I got the ‘flu and was fucking smashed by it. There are two days I can not recollect. Delirious and sick in bed etc. I would guesstimate 85% of recruits got it over that period, to varying severity.
Outside of having it and what not, I remember videos in the foyer part of the lines there, and buckets of Kentucky Fried the staff used to get from Wagga Wagga. So some good memories too.
So, what happened there?
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I’ve plenty of time for Lizzie. However, she wilfully engaged with (& thus encouraged) the looneys.
Leave ’em alone to howl into the emptiness.
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Thanks Mark – nice pix on that. Always a moving account.
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@Steve trickler
Mach Loop / Stupid : https://i.imgur.com/2aFue7s.jpg
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Sky News are uploading vids to YouTube, but only safe ones.
Not AJ of course.
Bolt has written a piece on the censorship.
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“Ladies, and some bike seat sniffers like Dr. Beaugan and Dr.Faustas over at Monty’s.*”
Isn’t JC over there – he’ll be monty’s BFF, as long as they go on having lunch together?
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Dr Jeanette gets worldwide attention:
World News
Australian Health Official Tells Grandparents: “Don’t Go Anywhere Near Your Grandkids”
by Paul Joseph Watson
https://www.infowars.com/posts/australian-health-official-tells-grandparents-dont-go-anywhere-near-your-grandkids/
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ZUBY:
@ZubyMusic
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Jun 4
You cannot comply your way out of tyranny.
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Mate, fuck off — you give Western Australians a bad name! Stick your “distaste” where it belongs.
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Arky was there. Montifa let him post one of his rants.
A pathetic, safe sanctuary for some ladies, and bike seat sniffers.
Monty? FFS
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The Australian team in Tokyo is the third largest there.
ROI not bad.
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Alex Jones was “tin-foil hat” only three years ago.
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“Thanks Mark – nice pix on that. Always a moving account.”
Top Ender, you’ll be getting some mail in the next few days, but in the meantime, would you care to comment on an appropriate fate for those who borrow SIGNED copies of books, and can’t remember who they lent those copies to? Life in chains, at hard labor?
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Out of interest I looked up Spanish Flu on Wikipedia to see what the covid influencers and panic/ fear mongers have written in. Sure enough this claim has appeared under the “public health measures”:
“Social distancing measures were introduced, for example closing schools, theatres, and places of worship, limiting public transportation, and banning mass gatherings.[146]”
The above is not social distancing.
How convenient the link for the reference ( referenced about 40+ times) doesn’t work. What have these butchers of history and reality not got into? I take it the most competent editor was referring to Journalist Laura Spinney’s 2018 book “Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World.”
Interesting where and why this most “prescient” work is referred to:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/covid-19-how-spanish-flu-changed-world/
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Reference 22 is quite interesting:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6773402/
Which states in the second paragraph of introduction:
“Until 1917, the new science of pathology had identified the bacteria causing disease, and had rapidly formulated vaccines. Most soldiers were inoculated against cholera, typhoid, and smallpox before they crossed over to France,…”
Which in itself does suggest a potential causal transmission mechanism for H1N1 (Spanish Flu). Given these were not vaccines but rather variolates. That is to say biological material from sick/ dead people often injected into ( you would hope) the upper layers of the skin.
So perhaps there is a basis to the argument some raise about vaccination, well, “contributing” to the Spanish flu pandemic. Virus straight past all the defences into tissues/ the bloodstream versus through a squamous cell interface such as the upper respiratory tract.
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Joanna says:
August 4, 2021 at 8:47 am
Apologies if this has already been mentioned. The vile comedienne Kathy Griffin has been diagnosed with lung cancer. She will have surgery to have half her left lung removed. The cancer was caught early and doctors expect her to make a full recovery.
Yeah sure she was vile and certainly no friend of the Orange God Emperor. But…
She’s certainly kept herself nice*
I’d crawl over a mile of broken glass just to take a single sniff of the exhaust pipe of the van that was taking her knickers to the laundry.
*With the exception of half the manky lung.
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Monty will be trying to get this site shut down.
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Sir Charles Court is rolling in his grave. WORD.
All you other sandgropers who doubt that are pussies.
Once the bulwark and bastion of Aussie culture and standards: and you let it die and succumb to the woke bullshit. FUCK OFF. You have no special status. We are all in this together, now.
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I have no time for such people.
Adam (D or P?), I do not know the site administrator at all, obviously worked very hard to get this website up and running in short order. All credit to him for his sterling effort. I assume he is a busy professional who has a real job, unlike some of the retired people who have the leisure to post endlessly here and on all the other Catallaxy clones.
Yet this Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare has been complaining, insulting and threatening the site administrator non-stop for days because he apparently failed to respond instantly to her demands to make immediate changes to the website, specifically to deal with posts by a person whom she and most of us find distasteful.
It is her massive sense of entitlement that got my goat in the end, and I snapped.
It was like Adam is one her domestic servants who is expected to respond to his mistress’s every whim. It is not like Adam is some old academic with copious time on his hands to deal with his hobby website.
I on the other hand am perfectly happy to wait and let Adam sort matters out in his own time. He’s earned that for sure.
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