Here I was all set to knock out a Christmas column full of cheer and bonhomie but life, or more accurately, Daily Life has intervened.
I normally disapprove of intra-media byplays but Fairfax Media’s Daily Life section has become so full of cranky third wave feminism that someone needs to hold it up to the light. Among this waste of ink and kilobyte street corner psychobabble, comes a contribution from self described feminist Polly Dunning who tells her harrowing tale of giving birth to a shame boy. The good news is she’s slowly getting over it.
I’m not allowed to swear anymore, at least not at volume but this is sorely testing my already fragile grip on self-control.
At first blanch this was merely another addition from women who have recently given birth and have come to believe that having done so, they have unlocked the secrets of the universe. But on further reading this is a tale of a woman not just at war with men but also her own male child.
Full column here.
Good heavens. Just watching PBS Newshour
There is a town in Kentucky that is holding a stockpile of low level nuclear waste that could provide electricity to the whole of America for 700 years! What are we waiting for?
What! Are you are a communist or an atheist or something?
We got 10 trillion dollars worth of coal and oil that God put in the ground for us to dig up and burn. Your dang uranium aint worth squat young lady.
You get yourself some learning on economics before you start sacrileging like that!
Withe the argument degenerating into a shit fight about global warming perhaps its time for a new column
Yeah you’re right. 40 Degrees in Perth the other day?
Geez you lot are like Texans. Just have to have the hottest mini ice age of all time, doncha ya showoffs.
Isn’t that weather JB, not climate? I used to live in Perth and 40º days were quite common with a northerly wind coming down off the Great Sandy Desert.
Yep JB, follows the coldest winter in WA since 1993, when modern measurement devices commenced.
The ABC screams today about the hot hot 2016, highest on record. Yep, by 0.2 degrees. Phew, your hot air would account for that much.
Weather, climate, wether climate, wither all this hot air debate?
JB 07:54am.
Just having a bit of a think , thanks anyway , but think we got a little excited running wild terrorising the blog in ISIS fassion unsettled many. As for me , I am making adjustments synchronizjng the brain into calming down trying to avoid hunting people off this blog. I think we should cool it for the year ahead after what Jack has gone through and me not really a hot head as Dick Smith called me some time ago winning one argument each , just out of control , reasons unknown.
Cheers.
Terrorising the blog! How much coffee are you drinking?
Nobody is making anyone read anything Rodent, if the AGW debate is unsettling people there is a very good reason for it, but no-one is obliged to participate. Likewise if it seems to some that the debate is dominating it shouldn’t stop people from contributing on other matters. If theres a paucity of other interesting posts that’s not our fault.
I was thinking of bringing up that story that surfaced again today about the security guard that nearly ventilated Her Majesty. Goodness gracious me, doesn’t bear thinking about does it? I have just discovered the Kardashians, I expect that will distract me for quite some time. or how about “Celebrity Idiot Desperate for Publicity on Desert Island”.
Lets discuss that. I’m breathless with anticipation.
Heres a link to a story that really got my attention this morning.
“Kim Asks, Does My Arse Look Big In This?”
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/160412-ice-sheet-collapse-antarctica-sea-level-rise/
“Stick your Tweets where the sun doesn’t shine”, says China’s media to the “1st Tweeter”, Donald Trump, Mr Insider, and he’s now only 15 days out from moving in to the Oval Office. Looks like Donald is going to be the “Tweeting President” and many will get the dreaded Tweet “Your Fired!”. Meanwhile back home in Australia PM Turnbull is all set to do what he did last year – Nothing! C’mon Malcolm at least send out a few Tweets you silly bastard! P.S. Barnaby Joyce has told the prattling Abbott to put a sock in it, STFU!
http://tinyurl.com/jga7kyu
Jack the Insider .
Sorry Jack forgot to add last blog on being a little disturbed lately , why I never know .
The topic climate is now in the past for me no longer arguing in a battle where no one wins in this one , just like politics , the pollies the only ones grinning with rewards they gain.
Cheers.
Penny 03:26pm .
Just in short after already said finished on this climate mania started by Dismayed and JB entertaining you as us clowns should not of entered in , them not getting a mention so enjoy them after revving many of us up.
Second ,. If I have offended you , I apologize in never mentioning climate topics again being mad myself for expressing the thought arguing with deniers.So fault is on me being the stupid one entering the ring in the first place.
Cheers .
Just to break up the monotony of the more-than-latter stages of these threads, a belated and hopefully Happy New Gregorian Year to everyone on here.
The cricket’s going well for us and South Africa, but not so much Sri Lanka and Pakistan. Or some in the South African top order and Sri Lankan batsmen generally.
Milton says: January 3, 2017 at 3:08 pm. I have answered you twice regarding your fixation with my height. I’ll try again. whatever your fixation with my height is your problem. I will say I am just above average height for the year I was born in. Not tall Not short just above average. As to your whingeing and whining further up the blog. I have said before if you hypocritical cons attack me I will respond in kind. What is it with you cons, do you carry your victim card in your top pocket for quick access? It is clear from your efforts on this blog and many many others you do not like it when a mirror is held up to you. You very quickly try to deny what you have previously said when called on it. You are a clear example of one who stands for nothing and falls for everything.
I’ve not attacked you, precious. You need to grow another layer.
And here’s your master class on dissembling, or is it obfuscation:
” I have answered you twice regarding your fixation with my height. I’ll try again. whatever your fixation with my height is your problem. I will say I am just above average height for the year I was born in. Not tall Not short just above average.”
Geez, you wriggle and squirm when caught out. Let us know when you reckon Renshaw is ready. Personally, I think Smith’s unconventional style should be tweaked with a couple more years back in the shield.
Milton, I see your complete lack of understanding encompasses Irony also. Again I stated Renshaw had a good knock he still has a big issue with his footwork. Before this match he had 131 runs from 5 innings. The Pakistan bowling unit have not been consistent . As I said “One swallow does not a summer make”. You on the other had just swallow and fall in love. I predicted Smith would be a gun before he even played for Australia. At the end of his first shield season he was scoring 50 or more at better than every third innings. Something Renshaw has not and will not do. Totally different type of foot movement. Renshaw’s feet scissor his front leg becomes goes fwd & across and his back leg goes back the opposite way his front leg becomes “locked” in at times stopping the ability to correct. Good luck to him, he looks like he is working at it but will be replaced Sooner or later. Give it up you are making yourself look even more ridiculous than usual.
Milton, do not forget you are debating Eddie the expert.
Renshaw got badged..properly.. front foot lunger. BAM.
M Johnson would’ve hospitalized him..
mebbe he learns…dunno..Jonathan Trott didn’t overcome his idiosyncratic shortcomings, did he?
opening bat/front foot lunger=div0
RE: Yvonne says:
January 4, 2017 at 11:49 am
Yvonne,
First off – do we have the wager re Truffles’ short to medium term career prospects?
Secondly, I think your scientist mates are being a little pessimistic but their inclination to Nuclear is almost certainly the only credible base load power option, if the ‘beloved’ are of primary importance.
As evidenced by recent events, renewables are not!! Whether it be reliability, cost (once subsidies are eliminated) and the escalating power bills in so many places. Perhaps more importantly at the National Strategic level, the deliberate destruction of one of our primary economic advantages, cheap reliable electricity, defies all analysis and logic.
Of course, the crass political zealots have done little analysis or risk management analysis, they have primarily just jumped on the ‘green bandwagon’ hoping to corral votes.
Of interest, when you are asked ‘How can we pay for Nuclear power’ just google PANGEA . Take note of the ‘worthies’ who have a historic relationship with this ‘lobby’. It would of course be unworthy of me to suggest that any retainer might be involved; I am sure they are motivated by the singular public good!!
That being said; there is a certain logic – B’Man notwithstanding – that says we mine it, we process it and we sell it to the world – there is money in muck lad, there’s money in muck – so let’s collect it and bury it – for a big fee!!
What better way to restore our National advantage, save the beloved and contribute to the eradication of the apocalyptic, while at the same time making an absolute motza!!
But of course South Australia is involved thus it probably is just a forlorn pipe-dream!!
Plmo: Yep I’ll take the bet re Truffles. This pension thing is escalating fast. Could be their undoing.
Nope – the pension thing will get them a lot of votes because of what the younger set think of the older set.
Also they just might bring down a budget where everybody suffers.
Expenditure has to be cut sooner than later because revenues are not going to grow so that leaves expenditure cuts.
The expectations of the old set, like overseas holidays, will have to be curtailed.
Nope. The young are being wrongfully targeted also by the computer system that assumes everyone has mislead the government. This Pension noise will be over shadowed by the Centrelink system debacle. Turnbull’s own ex IT guru has already let the cat out of the bag. The government knew their system would falsely target everyone and went ahead with it anyway.
check this rant..wishes alp would stop being mute.
the alp get the joke
https://www.facebook.com/philipsrants/photos/a.1535548086723688.1073741829.1535394326739064/1868856146726212/?type=3
You say it could be their undoing. I say he started undoing himself 12 months ago by sprouting megaflops of waffle and direction changes without being pinned down to one policy. If the shorton was not so desperately useless as well labor would now hold the treasury benches. Jobson Growth will be his downfall
Jack, you may have noticed some chatter from ME region about statements Israeli officials have been making about “shoot to kill” policies for police & defense confronting armed malefactors in public places.
My view FWIW in the context of police in Australia has been sharpened by that incident in Italy where the two police bumped into Anis Amri who was wanted for the murders in Berlin. Amri pulled out a pistol and started shooting at the police. One was wounded, the other had just enough time to bring up his Beretta and shoot Amri dead.
I just hope the police in Australia are sufficiently well trained (and armed) to react the same way, whenever a perpetrator is, or threatening to, attack police or the public.
Is that controversial? It shouldn’t be.