ITS AN OPEN AS WELL
The Ashes series starts Tuesday (1900EST US) in Brisbane, Australia. Since the 1880’s, England has been playing Australia every two years in one of the most heated rivalry in Test Cricket. They play for a lovely Waterford Crystal Urn that is a replica of the urn that, according to legend, contains the burned Cricket bails that represent ‘The Death of English Cricket” after their loss to Australia in 1882-3.
This isn’t simply a test match.
Test cricket is the form of the sport of cricket with the longest match duration and is considered the game’s highest standard.[1][2] Rotary Test matches are played between national representative teams that have been granted Test status, as determined and conferred by the International Cricket Council (ICC). It is called Test because the long, gruelling matches are mentally and physically testing.[3] Two teams of 11 players each play a four-innings match, which may last up to five days (or more in the past). It is generally considered the most complete examination of a team’s endurance and ability.[4][5][6]
This is rivalry at it’s highest that transcends sport. This is Mother Country versus one of ‘the Colonies’ with two years of bragging rites and pride on the line. Australia have won 33, England 32, there have been 6 draws. Yes, there can be a draw after 5 days of cricket and even after a whole series. the rules for a draw in test cricket are well beyond the scope of this post, however. And yes, there is a very small chance for a tie.
They will play Test Cricket in several venues around Australia and culminate in Perth in Mid January. .
A standard day of Test cricket consists of three sessions of two hours each, the break between sessions being 40 minutes for lunch and 20 minutes for tea. However, the times of sessions and intervals may be altered in certain circumstances: if bad weather or a change of innings occurs close to a scheduled break, the break may be taken immediately; if there has been a loss of playing time, for example because of bad weather, the session times may be adjusted to make up the lost time; if the batting side is nine wickets down at the scheduled tea break, then the interval may be delayed until either 30 minutes has elapsed or the team is all out;[21] the final session may be extended by up to 30 minutes if 90 or more overs have not been bowled in that day’s play (subject to any reduction for adverse weather);[22] the final session may be extended by 30 minutes (except on the 5th day) if the umpires believe the result can be decided within that time.[23]
More info and some fine articles can be found here.
Good morning! Or not……..
More than 100 drugs face supply chain shortages, FDA says
“The Drug Shortage Staff within the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) has asked manufacturers to evaluate their entire supply chain, including active pharmaceutical ingredients, finished dose forms, and any components that may be impacted in any area of the supply chain due to the COVID-19 outbreak,” the FDA wrote in a statement on the shortage.
Products regulated by the FDA account for 14% of imports and 15% of exports in the United States. The agency also reports that “about 80 percent of active pharmaceutical ingredients manufacturers are located outside of the U.S.”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/fda-warns-more-100-drugs-face-supply-chain-shortages
AOC has apparently decided that the rash of organized smash and grab robberies of high end retailers is a hoax:
eaglesoars wrote:
the ‘vid has nothing to do with supply chain problems…but we know that
@ lobo91:
she is nothing more than the mouthpiece for the commies who run the joint. her job is to say outrageous things now just to get them into the conversation no matter how absurd. this clears the way to implement them later.
Had 2 positive flu cases yesterday. 0 covid
whatever section 2 is………
BREAKING: DOJ announces it has filed suit against Texas for violating section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1467928922763538434
@ eaglesoars:
@ eaglesoars:
Pandemic lesson. Time to shore up the domestic drug industry.
Naval
@naval
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Like hyenas encircling the wounded members of the herd, Russia, China, and Iran are signaling to each other, trying to coordinate their upcoming moves against the former protectorates of the American empire.
@ lobo91:
She’s the type that gets a thrill from lying to your face and she knows you know she is lying.
https://amgreatness.com/2021/12/05/misremembering-pearl-harbor/
and the book ‘At Dawn We Slept’ (one of my professors at grad school helped write it) is an excellent and definitive history
@ lobo91:
In other words the corrupt DoJ thinks blacks are too stupid to vote. I would say that makes the DOJ a racist bigot.
darkwords wrote:
In this particular case, the subject is redistricting. Happens every ten years. In states where Republicans control the legislature, they try to use it to their advantage. In states where the Dems control things, they do the same. Not really a surprise. Been happening forever.
This time, though, the Dems have come up with a new angle. Since their voters are largely minorities, if the lines are redrawn to favor Republicans, they’re claiming that it’s being done to disadvantage minorities.
hey y’all
so the girl is home now.
she doesn’t have to be back until late January
@ rain of lead:
Woot! Christmas break.
@ coldwarrior:
You been watching the T20 ‘Big Bash’ series in Oz?
🙂
Sloggers of the world unite!
🙂
@ coldwarrior:
Had a NSW Cricket opening batsman in my class at High School. He was good fron 8 years old up. We had 30 nets in the playground with 1,000 guys playing lunchtime ‘nets’ cricket. Over head was automatically out, but no LBW as we wore no pads so if your leg got in the way of a VERY HARD and VERY FAST cricket ball it was off the the infirmary for you! Ron Crippen would play throughout lunch and nobody could get him out. Ron was a natural and should have played for the Australian Team, if there was any justice in the world.
🙂
Devin Nunes is going to retire from Congress to head up Trump’s media org.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1467981938787028999
rumors that Maxine Waters may retire.
American supply chains face a dire threat from China’s water shortages
As it turns out, China is drastically short of the water it needs to maintain its economy. China’s per capita water availability is one-quarter of the global average, and nearly 700 million of its citizens live in regions considered highly water-stressed. Meanwhile, groundwater depletion has been so significant in the areas around Beijing that parts of the city are falling into the earth by more than 14 centimeters a year.
China’s water shortages are showing up most acutely in electrical power generation, where the nation’s hydroelectric and coal power producers are struggling with irregular water access. Authorities have responded to the widespread power outages by clamping down on industrial energy consumption, resulting in major disruptions to China’s manufacturers.
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/584266-american-supply-chains-face-a-dire-threat-from-chinas-water
I don’t understand any of this but it’s probably important
DARPA FUNDED RESEARCHERS ACCIDENTALLY CREATE THE WORLD’S FIRST WARP BUBBLE
Warp drive pioneer and former NASA warp drive specialist Dr. Harold G “Sonny” White has reported the successful manifestation of an actual, real-world “Warp Bubble.” And, according to White, this first of its kind breakthrough by his Limitless Space Institute (LSI) team sets a new starting point for those trying to manufacture a full-sized, warp-capable spacecraft.
“To be clear, our finding is not a warp bubble analog, it is a real, albeit humble and tiny, warp bubble,” White told The Debrief, quickly dispensing with the notion that this is anything other than the creation of an actual, real-world warp bubble. “Hence the significance.”
https://thedebrief.org/darpa-funded-researchers-accidentally-create-the-worlds-first-warp-bubble/
Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit dies suddenly on the track
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/kentucky-derby-winner-medina-spirit-dies-suddenly/
heart attack
Wasn’t there some question about whether or not this horse had been drugged before a race?
eaglesoars wrote:
The FDA is doing it’s best to help the shortages by recalling medications that may or may not cause a wart to grow on the ass of 0.005% of lab rats tested.
This is how to kill off the old guard.
darkwords wrote:
You mean the black market.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
watched match one and two today
Aussie Infidel wrote:
a fine rule!
eaglesoars wrote:
there are some questions about bob baffert’s amazing successes and brilliant horses.
mom’s a horse person and hangs out with horse people…i COULD call and ask her what she thinks…but i hae to get to sleep sometime tonight.
he has some problems to go with all of these successes, i’ll leave it at that
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
you are starting to see the big picture.
@ eaglesoars:
DARPA does stuff…
but if they are announcing, it’s 20 years old
eaglesoars wrote:
Ohhh go on!
You’re just trying to make me smile!
Aren’t you?
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
really? don’t you think that we would be hearing or seeing footage of collapsed buildings? yeah, they tightly control media, but…
i do know that china is screwed. we taught them just enough to hang themselves.
central banking is war by other means
coldwarrior wrote:
Long woolen socks were minimal protection for an of swinger ‘leg-cutter’.
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
No… I’m just starting to say it out loud.
At least I finally got my prescription filled. Last time I ran out there was a heart attack on the horizon.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
that’ll make the batsman’s footwork much faster in the crease.
coldwarrior wrote:
You betcha it does.
When RocketLabs were just a bunch of enthusiasts and a few University undergraduates and chemists from Auckland University they were mucking about with a few Sidewinder AAA missiles donated by DARPA. the RL guys and gals turned the solid fueled Sidewinder into a hybrid fueled missile, using a solid fuel core and a thicksotropic oxidizer. Instead of a 2 1/2 second boost phase and then coast to the target unpowered, the RocketLabs missile did the fire and coast routine but once close to the target the engine relit and powered to the target, so that the target couldn’t use turns and flares to screw with a pure coasting missile RocketLabs’ chemist also came up with an extremely high temperature material that RocketLabs were using to make their engines and heat shielding from. That was just a couple of DARPA projects on the go in NZ and Oz. I know Oz was given the task of researching hypersonics for DARPA 20 years ago, and because of the very quiet environment of the sea floor just 20 Km from where I’m sitting right now. DARPA and the NZ Navy were perfecting strings of ultra sensitive 3D hydrophone technology.
And that was 25 years ago!
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
You bet it did. I was terrified whenever I somehow got someone out. That meant that I had just a bat to protect myself and some of the schoolboys could send ’em down as fast as a fully grown man. Terrifying. I think my record was 1 1/2 overs before I thought that I should ‘leave’ before I ran across a ‘fast bowler’ out for blood! Lofted a ball high into the nets…. OUT thankfully but with my honor satisfied!
🙂
sooooo…..does each citizen’s vote count equally? apparently not. lines must be drawn around the minorities. we must have segregation to save the minorities…didn’t south africa get in trouble for this?
its called apartheid.
Everyone’s favorite Russian cover band does a note-perfect rendition of a Steely Dan classic:
@ coldwarrior:
Ironic, isn’t it?
@ Aussie Infidel:
i pitched baseball from 6 years ols to high school.
i didn’t play around with curve balls (spin)
i had three pitches, fast, faster (pace), and slow but they all looked the same coming out of my hand. i became the closer to clean up after the curve guys got done…or…if the opposing team pitcher hit one of our guys…well…i got sent in if the offending pitcher was batting to settle the score.
was thrown out of 9 games in three years.
lobo91 wrote:
soooo….we should have white homelands…’walled off’ from all other races….
odd…this was verboten some years ago…i can see it now, the wealthy areas in PGH can erect huge walls like on the falls road in belfast…the wealthy north hills can have checkpoints to get in and out…
@ coldwarrior:
Steve Bannon focuses on a district in Texas that is mostly hispanic but flipped red. I would think that only the blue hispanics are complaining. The red ones aren’t.
Oregon has proposed sectioning the gerrymandering of portland into 4 quadrants and then extending those out into the rural areas to dilute the red votes.
Charlie Brown Republicans just blink.
@ coldwarrior:
We should just be ok with a new form of segregation based on city states or redefine race. Make one big bucket called mixed “afrimegamex” Give them some merit advantages. BLM will get wiped out.
In the 60’s as a kid I was advised not to marry out of race as the kids will have a hard time growing up. As early as the 80’s my conservative family had mixed race kids. And the overly cautious grandparents were giddy with love for these kids. It was a window of time where racial labels were not applied in schools. Different now probably.
@ lobo91:
They are great.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
My sister in law was worried about running out of her meds. Probably a trip to mexico is in order? Or Canada.
darkwords wrote:
Find a compounding pharmacist and talk to them.
https://nypost.com/2021/12/06/china-may-be-eyeing-its-first-military-base-on-the-atlantic-ocean-report/
US officials told the Wall Street Journal that intelligence suggests China is eyeing the small African nation of Equatorial Guinea for its base.
darkwords wrote:
There’s a reason you don’t see anyone doing Steely Dan covers.
My bank gave me a credit increase. yeah… oh they increased it to the same amount of credit I have always had. Banking mass mailing error I think.
@ eaglesoars:
Thanks I had to look up and see what a compounding pharmacist was.
@ darkwords:
Always interested in new words and it looks like it will help.
@ darkwords:
This is a great compendium of logorrhea.
https://www.phrontistery.info/ihlstart.html
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/how-to-correctly-perform-the-home-covid-beer-test/
Brilliant
Outdoor Christmas lights are now offensive.
Doesn’t look like whoever wrote this had the balls to sigh their name. Smart move. People might look them up and, you know, burn their house down or something.
The idea of twinkling, colorful lights are a reminder of the divisions that continue to run through our society, a reminder of systemic biases against our neighbors who don’t celebrate Christmas or who can’t afford to put up lights of their own.
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We must come together collectively [there’s that word again] and challenge these institutional inequities.
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read the whole thing
https://twitter.com/desertmom66/status/1467859254765764610
Faust. Mephistopheles.
Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook signed an agreement with Chinese officials, estimated to be worth about $275 billion, to placate threats that would have hobbled its devices and services in the country, The Information reported on Tuesday, citing interviews and internal Apple documents.
https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/apple-ceo-tim-cook-signed-275-billion-deal-with-chinese-officials-to-placate-china-11638887761652.html
Well, well, well. Two years ago there was a virus going around in horses. Hendra
July 2018
ANTI-VAXXERS ARE TARGETING A VACCINE FOR A VIRUS DEADLIER THAN EBOLA
The vaccine for Hendra, a virus that can spread from horses to humans, has pitted owners against vets—revealing that science alone can’t prevent the next global pandemic.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/anti-vaxxers-horses-hendra/559967/
The protocol for the vax was the same as those for COVID-19. And horse owners started noticing that the more the of vax their horses got, the sicker their horses got. They started a class action suit against the drug manufacturer, Zoetis. Oddly enough, Zoetis’ parent company is – wait for it – Pfizer.
Sound familiar?
https://twitter.com/thereds8/status/1468177791971573762
oh fuck me
Hendra virus is a paramyxovirus that causes periodic serious disease and fatalities in horses and humans in Australia first identified in 1994. Pteropid bats (commonly known as flying-foxes) are the natural host of the virus, and the putative route of infection in horses is by ingestion or inhalation of material contaminated by flying-fox urine or other bodily fluids. Humans become infected after close contact with infected horses. Horse owners in Australia are encouraged to vaccinate their horses against Hendra virus to reduce the risk of Hendra virus infection, and to prevent potential transmission to humans. After the vaccine was released in 2012, uptake by horse owners was slow, with some estimated 11-17% of horses in Australia vaccinated. This study was commissioned to examine barriers to vaccine uptake and potential drivers to future adoption of vaccination by horse owners.
https://bmcvetres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12917-017-1006-7
@ eaglesoars:
Looks like the next phase of the information operations campaign has been launched:
Basically, they’re trying to do exactly what they accused Trump of doing in 2020, which is to convince their supporters that if their side loses, it can only have been due to fraud and cheating.
@ lobo91:
This was my favorite part
Translation: I’m not quoting a partisan hack
eaglesoars wrote:
While quoting a partisan hack. Yep, very Bolshevik
the latest variant is nothing more than a bad cold…MUST GET MORE VAX
two of mrs coldwarrior’s RN work buddies are positive, both completely vaxxed…MUST GET MORE VAX
the vax looks like it is pretty dangerous as vaxxes go…MUST GET MORE VAX
rinse, repeat.
so, where have i seen this cycle before…ah yes. Purdue phama and the pushing of oxycontin. purdue paid off everyone to make pain ‘the fifth vital sign’ and basically bribed doctors to prescribe it to everyone. some of the details have come out but no one looked to see if JCAHO officials got bribed. I am sure that they did because their policies about pain were ABSURD and not based in best practices or science and were made VERY suddenly, just as purdue came out with oxy. ther would have never been that kind of buy-in from the MDs without JCAHO directives.
i would like to see where the pharma bribes have gone to keep this vax farce going. sure, a lot of this nonsense is about control, and most of it is about money.
coldwarrior wrote:
did you see my 56 & 57 posts?
Social Security COLA Calculations May Get Changed to CPI-E as Part of the Reform Bill. What Does it Mean for Retirees?
There’s an interesting chart here.
https://wolfstreet.com/2021/12/06/social-security-reform-what-if-cola-calculations-shift-from-cpi-w-to-cpi-e/
eaglesoars wrote:
yep
https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/hendra/outbreaks/distribution-map.html
and it hasn’t gone into epidemic (let alone pandemic) status tells me that while dangerous, it ain’t no ebola.
coldwarrior wrote:
I think it was only in Australia but not sure
eaglesoars wrote:
oh, i just looked at your map
@ eaglesoars:
the map has two virii, both carried by fox bats
*snort*
Chris Cuomo’s book canceled by HarperCollins
https://nypost.com/2021/12/07/chris-cuomos-book-canceled-by-harpercollins/
And I saw somewhere that a circuit court just killed Biden’s mandate for Federal contractors
well……….
This Mysterious, Indestructible ‘Black Box’ Will Tell The Future What Happened to Us
At a distant end of the Earth – hidden somewhere on the remote Australian island of Tasmania – a strange structure is about to witness and record the end of the world as we know it.
The project, called Earth’s Black Box, is a giant steel installation, soon to be filled with hard drives powered by solar panels, each of them documenting and preserving a stream of real-time scientific updates and analysis on the gloomiest issues the world faces.
Information related to climate change, species extinction, environmental pollution, and impacts on health will all be chronicled in the monolithic structure – so that if some future society might one day discover the archive, they’ll be able to piece together what happened to our planet.
“Unless we dramatically transform our way of life, climate change and other man-made perils will cause our civilization to crash,” the Earth’s Black Box website explains.
“Earth’s Black Box will record every step we take towards this catastrophe. Hundreds of data sets, measurements and interactions relating to the health of our planet will be continuously collected and safely stored for future generations.”
https://www.sciencealert.com/this-mysterious-indestructible-black-box-will-tell-the-future-what-happened-to-us
https://www.earthsblackbox.com/
A lack of chargers could stall the electric-vehicle revolution
Forget Tesla’s production hell. The hardest bit of EVs is the powering up
https://www.economist.com/business/a-lack-of-chargers-could-stall-the-electric-vehicle-revolution/21806663
‘zactly.
I invested in a little Swiss company, ABB, that makes them. Bought at $29, it’s up to about $36.
And in our How Hard Do You Have To Work To Be This Stupid? dept we have
Biden’s National Security Adviser Sullivan Says Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Is Not Leverage For Putin Because It’s Not Operating
we are so screwed
https://twitter.com/PriapusIQ/status/1468313269731483657
J6 Attorney: Undercover Law Enforcement Officer Passed Out Weapons to J6 Protesters Who Were Later Arrested – Clear Entrapment (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/breaking-j6-attorney-undercover-law-enforcement-officer-passed-weapons-j6-protesters-get-arrested-clear-entrapment-video/
eaglesoars wrote:
In many cases, that no longer matters. Woke companies like the company from which I retired have already set the deadlines such that people are either getting vaxxed or being fired if they aren’t vaxed. Mrs Federalist got the J&J vaccine to keep her job. The damage has already been done, the policies have been set in place by the companies and employees have already had to make their own decisions relative to the magic potion.
eaglesoars wrote:
Oh for crying out loud. These people sure have a very high opinion of themselves and their “observations” that, over the past 50+ years have been wrong. Every. Single. Time.
@ AZfederalist:
OTOH, having this black box in place will be useful. When future generations discover it, look at it, and laugh at the silliness of the ancients. That is if the Last Day doesn’t come before then; at that point the black box will be destroyed with the rest of the earth.
lobo91 wrote:
What I want to know eagles is why you are surprised in the least. The left globally is renowned for accusing their bete noirs of doing exactly what the left do all of the time. The Left are LIARS and they worship at the feet of the Father of Lies…. not to put too fine a theological point on it!
🙂
Once you understand that simple fact everything that the left do becomes clear and it’s so very easy to know what they will do next!
AZfederalist wrote:
For crying out aloud indeed.
Not to worry, as it’s only the Tasmanian GREEN PARTY on steoroids doing what they always do. Over egging the pudding.
These are the same morons who keep marrying their cousins with the very predictable results. The pretty island run by Greenies and associated nutters. Australia has everything under control as most of their Greenies self isolate on an offshore Island and nobody pays them any notice at all.
eaglesoars wrote:
Quickly eagles. Get in first and sell Sullivan that bridge in NYC!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
lol
they arent that little
coldwarrior wrote:
And they make really cool stuff like steel rolling mills that are about the size of an apartment complex.
I used to work on systems that monitored them in Italy. Thankfully not systems that controlled them, that is scary shit! Just computers that monitored temperature and pressure and times for batches of steel so they had a quality control record.
And the food was good. 🙂
@ Possum Pureblood:
They also make the robots that make Mercedes cars
FWIW
Vatican Source: ‘Pope is Dying’, Conclave Prep underway, credible Journalist reports
https://novusordowatch.org/2021/12/pope-francis-is-dying-john-gizzi/
coldwarrior wrote:
I do my research 😆
The commie bitch is gone
Saule Omarova, whom Biden nominated to lead the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), pulled herself from consideration in a letter Biden released Tuesday, calling her nomination “untenable.”
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/584773-bidens-pick-for-bank-watchdog-pulls-out
@ AZfederalist:
I agree. When I see people debating private company mandates I think to myself too late. If there is a strong union of workers and the union leadership is conservative then maybe a large corporation might hesitate to directly mandate that employees get vaccinated. They will still require it for the company picnic to protect the kids.
A person like enes kanter in the NBA can act as a foil to King James and move some of the public leaders. The anti vax NBA player fizzled a bit.
@ eaglesoars:
good news for modern man. Unfortunately every Biden official nominated is just as bad.
coldwarrior wrote:
Maybe I should buy more
Two fish swimming by a duck.
Duck: How’s the water boys?
One fish to the other: What’s water?
eaglesoars wrote:
I hope that commie rots in hell
@ coldwarrior:
Prayers for the new pope Paperino Scacciapensieri
Italian for Donald Trump
eaglesoars wrote:
Satan recalling one of his own this soon?
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Tennessee’s medical licensing board voted Tuesday to delete a policy opposing coronavirus misinformation from its website due to fears a powerful conservative lawmaker would otherwise dissolve the board and replace its members.
The policy, unanimously adopted by the Board of Medical Examiners in September, establishes that doctors who spread demonstrably untrue information about COVID-19 vaccines could have their licenses suspended or potentially revoked. Members voted 7 to 3 to delete — but not rescind — the policy.
The deletion was spurred by Rep. John Ragan, R-Oak Ridge, a co-chair of the Joint Government Operations Committee, who insisted board members don’t have the authority to create a new disciplinary offense without the approval of lawmakers on his committee.
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/health/2021/12/07/medical-board-deletes-anti-misinformation-policy-amid-gop-pressure/6416959001/
AZfederalist wrote:
one can hope.
Thinking of viruses while supper is cooking. Having a feast tonight. A baked potato, not curry.
Anyway, if this latest strain of covid, Omicron, is a weak and mild as being reported AND if getting infected with it triggers natural immunity to covid strains in general isn’t it time we ended lockdowns, ended masking, ended travel restrictions and let Omicron run rampant through the population?
What triggered this thought was the fact that in the 1700’s people that worked with cows that had cowpox, when infected with it, were then immune to the much more deadly smallpox.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowpox
Just a random thought….
coldwarrior wrote:
Now …Now CW. We should have a hope that the blackhearted communist bastard has an eleventh hour ‘reconsideration’. My guess is 1: million but you never know.
🙂
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
HEH!
🙂
@ coldwarrior:
Three England wickets fall early on a ‘green strip’ and some muggy overcast conditions. At least the pitch isn’t going to break up on day 2 as happened in India recently, that made batting dangerous.
🙂
Ahhh the sound of willow on leather and Aussie ‘sledging’!
HEH!
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
Try them for murder. Include Zuckerberg. They’ll wake up from being woke then.
Aussie Infidel:
4 for 29.
England is in yuge trouble
Big Food says the ‘transition’ to the new world order food system is already well underway
A coalition of the World’s largest multi-national corporations is working to manipulate you into eating more “equitable” food though a business strategy designed to help major “food players” and other large businesses facilitate “the coming food systems transition.”
They plan to do so with the help of a new strategy that assesses the supposed morality of individual food items and uses that metric to make business decisions and levy performance reviews.
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development calls itself “the premier global, CEO-led community of over 200 of the world’s leading sustainable businesses working collectively to accelerate the system transformations needed for a net zero, nature positive, and more equitable future.”
In addition to food industry giants like Kellogg’s and Nestle, WBCSD’s member list includes Big Tech players —Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc. Many of the groups’ most prominent members are also members of the World Economic Forum, which highlighted the initiative in a recent post on its own website.
Speaking of Microsoft — recall reports from nearly a year ago that founder Bill Gates had suddenly become the largest farmland owner in America, after having quietly bought up 242,000+ acres of it.
The new framework for assessing the globalist’s approval of various food items is titled “The True Value of Food: A powerful aid to business decision-making.” It is presented in a document complete with photos of objectively bland looking, plant-based food. Its introduction contends that “there is a problem” with the current food system.
The problem addressed is not that our food is increasingly becoming overly-processed, genetically modified garbage, but rather that “the global food system humans have created is one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and biodiversity loss,” and that it “perpetuates inequality.”
“A transformation in how we produce and consume food is an imperative to sustain a global population of 8 to 11 billion people,” it insists. “This transformation has already begun and will accelerate over the next decade.”
“True Value of Food (TVoF) analyses incorporates the direct and indirect positive and negative impacts associated with a product from farm to fork,” the document explains.
“Further refinement of TVoF’s methods will make it easier for companies to routinely integrate economic, social, health and environmental factors into their strategic and operational assessments of business opportunities and risks, and in performance reviews,” WEF explained.
So how does the metric work? WBCSD offers a cookie as an example — noting that the sweet treat loses points because of the associated “socio-economic cost” to the workers on the cacao plantation and the “health costs”—which of course are “borne by the British taxpayer,” and therefore counted as a cost to society.
What’s better than a cookie? The WBCSD suggests consuming “an oatmilk porridge” as an alternative. The porridge bowl scores much better on the TVoF scale, because of its lower environmental, health, and socio-economic costs. These categories take into account factors like “food waste” and “air pollution,” in order to determine the “true cost” of the food in question. According to the WBCSD, the cookie and porridge can easily be swapped, since they have “a similar consumer value.”
The cookie’s score could be improved by using coconut oil instead of butter, fortifying the cookie with “nutrients,” and paying farmers more.
The Council notes the while “the food transition is underway,” CEOs of major companies must “act now” and begin “leveraging” the TVoF metric immediately. It offers an action plan for companies to “incorporate the TVoF into their decision making” such as by using the concept to choose investments, suppliers, and transportation options and to formulate performance metrics.
https://humanevents.com/2021/12/06/big-food-says-the-transition-to-the-new-world-order-food-system-is-already-well-underway/
yeah, won’t work
@ Possum Pureblood:
person on the news yesterday suggesting that a British accent adds 10 points to your IQ
@ Possum Pureblood:
And apparently you are not the only pureblood out there. There was a twitter call to round up the purebloods and vaccinate them.
I follow a few archaeology sites on twitter. Saw this
Earliest surviving recipes written in Akkadian, 1750 BC. This cuneiform tablet includes 25 recipes for stews, 21 are meat stews and 4 are vegetable stews.
Tablets were translated by Jean Bottéro and Teresa Lavender Fagan.
https://twitter.com/archeohistories/status/1468391106706477059
and long story short – here are the translated recipes!
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20191103-the-worlds-oldest-known-recipes-decoded
eaglesoars wrote:
ok, 1 recipe
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/12/07/civil-asset-forfeiture-trends-after-police-dog-praised-for-finding-100000-cash-in-passengers-luggage/
Woman loses 100,000 to the police for carrying it in her luggage.
@ darkwords:
um, I’m missing the due process part……..
Just to be clear, the United States Congress will pass a law requiring the creation of a UFO reverse engineering program.
This is an absolute, undeniable paradigm shift.
https://twitter.com/tinyklaus/status/1468290233217204235
legislative language at the link
where are they going to get the whatever it is to reverse engineer tho? Or do they already have it?
darkwords wrote:
Not at all. It’s just between Americans’ ears that, that idea holds. There is a certain linguistic inferiority complex some Americans seem to have. Why I have no idea, as there are plenty of examples of Brit morons out there.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
I’m sure that Colonel Corso is hammering on the lid of his coffin yelling… Pick me… pick me!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
That’s not even the most interesting part of his life
bed time. nite.
Oh lawdy.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/jussie-smollett-tells-prosecutor-to-stop-saying-n-word-while-quoting-his-text-messages
coldwarrior wrote:
This has been discussed since years and is really a very seious problem
https://chinadialogue.net/en/cities/9219-irreversible-subsidence-is-causing-beijing-to-sink/
https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/18/3773
darkwords wrote:
The Brits are on metric.
@ Guggi:
Out of curiosity, I wanted to know how high Beijing is above sea level, so I clicked on the Wiki link provided by Google:
Elevation of the urban area is only 40 to 60 metres (130–200 feet)above sea level. It’s got a lot of major rivers, so the city is on a flood plain sitting on silt.
Silt is real crappy soil to build on – it shifts – so piles or mat slabs are required to prevent buildings from sinking/tipping.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Gazoogle translation:
Guggi wrote:
So then I decided to see if my guess was correct, and actually read the article. I almost was.
@ Aussie Infidel:
147 all out!
the aussie bowling was terrific.
@ Guggi:
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
ahhh, very interesting, thanks for the info..and hysterical translation
@ Aussie Infidel:
yeah, if met some stone assed stupid squadies.
“Such frameworks aim to reduce achievement gaps by limiting the availability of advanced mathematical courses to middle schoolers and beginning high schoolers,” the open letter says.
“Such a reform…may lead to a de facto privatization of advanced mathematics K-12 education and disproportionately harm students with fewer resources.”
well, isnt that the plan, create a permanent underclass.
@ coldwarrior:
Which is why I’d love to see people with the means start providing scholarships, based on zip codes, to private schools.
My parents sacrificed to send me to private school starting in 4th grade. Not all parents can do that.
Anyone heard from Dorian? Some folks are asking about him.
@ lobo91:
THAT is scary. Many of the vaxxed children in elementary school today will be dead.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
he has some music releases coming up…details in a few days.
and he is working his butt off
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
And you just know that they’re going to turn it over in hard copy form, so it can’t be searched. Same thing the State Department did with Hillary Clinton’s emails.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
https://youtu.be/yzLqo_nG-5A
hey y’all
@ coldwarrior:
Thanx. I’ll pass on the word.
rain of lead wrote:
Hi, yinz!
The jokes will write themselves
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/viagra-cuts-the-risk-of-alzheimers-by-70-percent/
coldwarrior wrote:
We exercised with a company of Gordon Highlanders. Their officers were brutal towards them and the squaddies were a little ‘feral’ and straight out of the Glasgow sewers. The engineers built a huge set of outdoor showers using huge rubber bladders of water uphill from the showers. The Gordon’s actually ‘came for a look’ but didn’t actually get wet. Smelly little buggers and about 5’6″ tall covered in ‘tats’ and with knife scars from boozer fights.
When returning to camp from a visit to the bars of Kaitia in Northland I just naturally jumped onto the nearest truck. The look on the faces of the Gordon’s was priceless. You could see them thinking…… ” what in hell is a Field Rank officer doing riding in the BACK of a truck?” After that we had no problems with them and they relaxed and got on well with the Kiwis. The Brit ‘Ruperts'(officers) were another problem all together. Arrogant, cruel and basically dumb to what was going on around them. Once Brit officers got to field rank they went either way. Enlightened and VERY good or arrogant and dumb, templated fools.
🙂
@ coldwarrior:
How about that new Aussie Cricket Captain ehhhh?
No pressure….. just into the Aussie Test line up, first test match, and captain of the team to boot. He excelled himself. Oz has found yet another remarkable test captain! There must be a factory someplace in the ‘bush’ churning them out!
🙂
So how’s that $275 billion trade deal you signed working out for ya?
*NIKKEI: APPLE HAS HALTED IPHONE PRODUCTION FOR THE FIRST IN OVER A DECADE DUE TO SUPPLY CHAIN ISSUES
https://twitter.com/AlessioUrban/status/1468524767045201922
{rain}
@ coldwarrior:
I just hope that the Brisbane forecast for thunder storms and heavy rain don’t ‘save’ the English from the defeat that they so richly deserve!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
Long slog to go…but, England had better get their heads right or it will be over in 3
So I just released my first single , well, technically anything, since 1996.
http://itunes.apple.com/album/id1599087174?ls=1&app=itunes
@ doriangrey:
Hi there Dorian.
Where have you been hiding out?
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
Jocko Willink had a podcast on a guy who wrote a book on the failures of British military leadership in the Crimea and in the Boer war.
Generals would purchase their ranks. While the men were dying from miserable conditions in the Crimea the commanding general was on his personal yacht off shore. The functional leaders were often labeled malcontents.
Jocko on Military incompetence.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5g3bedhb0NC7OSqFRc83C0?si=wbWJJkWZTLSVEuLPcYE4oQ
6 parts so about 15 hours of podcasting on it.
He’s worth at least one listen on a persons life bucket list. Most recent interview is from vet who fought on D-Day.
A lot of it is about character and ego under extreme pressure to win and live. Cover and move. Cover and move.
@ doriangrey:
IT’S ALIVE
doriangrey wrote:
Sounds like The Band. Nice job.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Has a whiskey theme I can relate to.
upthread Darkwords posted about Texas police confiscating $100k from someone’s luggage and I replied that I missed the ‘due process part’.
check this out. In Texas, there ain’t none. Civil forfeiture laws allow jurisdictions to grab your stuff to fund their stuff
https://www.dmagazine.com/health-fitness/2021/12/dallas-police-steal-100000-from-woman-at-love-field/
What Wilkison admits here is that many local governments see civil forfeiture as a way to pad their bottom line. That is frightening. Sure, we may find out that the 25-year-old woman who was carrying $100,000 in cash was indeed on her way to make some sort of large drug deal. But that doesn’t matter. Regardless of her intent, laws in Texas are written in such a way that local governments have an incentive to seize money without any solid evidence. In other words, if you were flying through Love Field with any amount of cash for any reason, and Ballentine’s ears perked up, police could legally take your money.
HI DORIAN!! Love the track, hope this finds you well……..
There are not enough *snorts*
U.S. government to end gas-powered vehicle purchases by 2035 under Biden order
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-pledges-end-gas-powered-federal-vehicle-purchases-by-2035-2021-12-08/
I don’t know why Hannity and Greg Kelly have a love affair with ‘Dr Oz’. The guy is a fraud.
Mark Meadows is suing everybody. Should be fun!
Mark Meadows, facing the looming prospect of criminal contempt of Congress charges, is suing to block a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee, arguing that it unconstitutionally intrudes on former President Donald Trump’s powers to invoke executive privilege.
The former White House chief of staff filed the suit Wednesday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Washington against Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the members of the Capitol riot panel and the committee itself. His attorney says he’s been put in an “untenable position” of choosing to defy the committee — and risk criminal prosecution — or defy his former boss Donald Trump’s attempt to assert executive privilege to block his testimony.
“The Select Committee acts absent any valid legislative power and threatens to violate longstanding principles of executive privilege and immunity that are of constitutional origin and dimension,” the suit filed by Meadows’ attorney George Terwilliger contends.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/08/meadows-sues-pelosi-jan-6-select-panel-523968
Test cricket is boring.
Limited overs cricket usually played on Sunday afternoons by the general population in England is actually quite an exciting game to watch.
doriangrey wrote:
Cool. I like it.
The last view of Earth from the Cassini spacecraft before it crashes into Saturn.
(scroll down a bit to see the arrow pointing to Earth)
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ddba6073ad89c710bb2e489d80221ecfe268d11de40b8e560af5c23a861745c7.jpg
TRUMP: “Mitch McConnell just folded on the Debt Ceiling, a total victory for the Democrats—didn’t use it to kill the $5 Trillion Dollar (real number!) Build Back Worse Bill that will essentially change the fabric of our Country forever.”
https://twitter.com/ElectionWiz/status/1468773301023608837
All I can think of is his wife’s China connections. I have no other explanations..
@brad_polumbo
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9h
“I’m 32 years old now,” the congresswoman said. “I have over $17,000 in student loan debt… this is unacceptable.”
Um,
@AOC
, you earn $175/year courtesy of taxpayers.
@ darkwords:
And her payments on that are probably around $150 a month. I’m pretty sure it’s not really causing her any financial hardship.
I just finished watching the epic 7 1/2 hour Beatles documentary Get Back on Disney +. That was an amazing experience,from both a technical standpoint and as an insight into what the Beatles were really like in the studio.
Peter Jackson is probably going to take home multiple Emmys for the project. They managed to make 50 year old 16mm film look like modern HD video. There’s no new footage in it at all. It’s entirely put together out of some 60 hours of film and 150 hours of audio recordings that were made for a TV show and documentary that never happened back in 1969.
The climax of the whole enterprise is the famous “rooftop concert,” which was the final public performance the Beatles ever did. It was filmed using 10 cameras (5 on the roof, one on a roof across the street, 3 at street level and one in the lobby), and they show the entire 42 minute set from start to finish.
I’d say it was the best thing I’ve watched this year, without a doubt.
The new US Attorney for Massachusetts is a peach.
https://twitter.com/smcroasters/status/1468870999596838919
@ Aussie Infidel:
Been busy working
Somebody had to build the ship to put Captain Kirk in space….
@ lobo91:
If you have Amazon Prime there are ads on Instagram for a 6 month free trial of Disney Plus
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
need a German word for people that are immature but in positions of power.
This one is probably like Kamala, a case of affirmative action hiring gone bad.
Joe Rogan with Matt Taibi talking about the Patriot Front march. Says they are all in military shape and look like FBI. Eaglesoars did a better analysis than Rogan and Taibi
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Rollins, the Suffolk County district attorney, was confirmed by a 51-50 count, with Vice President Kamala Harris stepping in to cast the tie-breaking vote.
Possum Pureblood wrote:
How about T20 in that case? Slog and bash.
Nope.
Test cricket is just that a total TEST of a team’s mental and physical abilities.
You probably like playing drafts (Checkers) but find Chess boring too!
🙂
doriangrey wrote:
Good for you mate!
🙂
@ lobo91:
the girl is watching that and said paul is her favorite beatle
@ rain of lead:
He definitely comes off as the center of that documentary.
John seemed like he would rather have been somewhere else. George’s frustration at being in the shadow of Paul and John definitely comes across.
And Ringo was just sort of there.
lobo91 wrote:
George Harrison was a hideous man. Read Patti Boyd’s autobiography, Lovely Tonight. He bedded Ringo’s wife, for one thing, just because he was a son of a bitch. If you look around enough, he wasn’t much better with his second wife, but she sucked it up.
If you doubted that the Dems/Progressives are losing the Hispanic vote:
Laurie Cumbo is voting against legislation allowing non-citizens to vote in NYC because, she said, Latinos voted in greater numbers for Donald Trump in 2020. She believes it will empower Latinos at the expense of Black voters.
https://twitter.com/RossBarkan/status/1469067475899854855
cry harder
😀
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1468831517430333441
via Feral Irishman
eaglesoars wrote:
Bongino was talking about that today. The Hispanic vote was split about 50-50, but that’s a huge increase.
Inflation number is out. 6.9%, highest in 39 years
Austria: $4000 fine every 3 mos. if not vaxed
BREAKING: CDC Counting People Infected Within 14 Days Of 3rd Injected as Unvaccinated.
Despite only 3 uninjected Omicron cases the CDC list of the first 43 US cases reports 9 unvaccinated:
3 uninjected
1 infected within 14 days of shot 2
5 infected within 14 days of shot 3
https://twitter.com/kr3at/status/1469383693030592518
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Seems like a good practical joke to play on the relatives.
@ eaglesoars:
Of the Hispanics I know. None of them look at the illegal aliens as benign creatures. And they would not let their underage girls near the machismo of the disaffected.
A couple of them did vote Biden. I wonder how they feel knowing they voted for this level of incompetence. “Who’s in charge?”
@ eaglesoars:
No booster for me. 3 months in from the first shot and it’s still iffy. I’ll seek out the monoclonal antibodies. Most people I know that had the vax took it fine.
darkwords wrote:
I got the Moderna booster about 10 days ago. I felt pretty bad the next day, although not as bad as after the second shot. Fine after that.
Washington Free Beacon
@FreeBeacon
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14m
A reporter asks about Biden and Harris’ tweets on Jussie Smollett.
“Since the guilty verdict, are there any lessons learned here on rushing to judgement when a crime is alleged?”
Psaki: “There are lessons learned, perhaps for everybody … including former president Trump.”
Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
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2h
The next time the US or UK issues some sanctimonious statement condemning some other country for imprisoning journalists or disrespecting press freedoms, they should scoff in their face, pointing to Assange. Many already do that.
Only US/UK journalists don’t see this fraud.
** I’d concur with Greenwald. I was reading some Chinese propaganda and they point to Assange and Afghanistan as to why the US is a human rights abuser.
China has probably changed a lot but when I visited the only non CCP news source was an MSM channel from France.
Ryan James Girdusky
@RyanGirdusky
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6h
Just for some perspective, if you get 26 paychecks a year (as most do), 6.8% inflation means that almost 2 of those are gone.
Zoe Tillman
@ZoeTillman
· 2h
Hello from Judge John Bates’ virtual courtroom, where sentencing is just getting started for Capitol rioters Abram Markofski and Brandon Nelson, who each pleaded guilty to the parading/demonstrating misdemeanor. Govt wants 14 days incarceration, they’ll be arguing for probation
https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1469045510442864642/photo/1
Interesting. The president of El Salvador posting tweets about Biden ambassador corruption. Caught on video paying US dollars to El Salvadorian gang members.
Have to look at this a bit more.
David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense
@davereaboi
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Dec 9
As it turns out, one big reason the government won’t release their January 6th video is because of horrific brutality on the part of the Capitol Police. Read
@julie_kelly2
at
@theamgreatness
now.
Scott Adams got very upset that someone tried to break into his house and then vandalized it. He broadcast that the damages were extensive and would cost an arm and a leg to repair. And that he had it on video and would ID the culprits and pursue justice to its fullest. He made it seem like someone was trying to harm him physically.
What really happened. A kid egged his house.
I notice he gets super hysterical more often now and has a pretty thin skin. I think he is addicted to twitter trolls and can’t quit. Sort of a Broke Back Dilbert scenario. Probably be a favor to him to stop incrementing his viewership stats upward.
I see Althouse starting taking comments again. There is this group of traditional liberals who find out that the only real audience they have for their thoughts are conservatives. The woke don’t want them.
It’s Alexa play the best of Pearl Jam day.
Interesting piece on UFO study. I didn’t know they have material dropped from these things. the isotope ratios are off
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7nzkq/stanford-professor-garry-nolan-analyzing-anomalous-materials-from-ufo-crashes
30 mins ago
————–
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1469416442902851593
I received a letter from a J6 PRE-TRIAL defendant who says he has been transferred to a maximum security prison and is now in 24 hour a day confinement & only gets to shower 3 days per week.
Andrew Takke is the defendant I met on my DC Jail visit that has a mangled finger,
2. and has been refused medical treatment all these months.
His letter states that he and 2 others were transferred to USP Lewisburg after my visit.
ALL J6 defendants should be in a pre-trial facility or allowed out on bail until their trial.
———–
and the replies are appalling
https://babylonbee.com/news/beto-surges-to-the-lead-for-governor-of-texas-in-poll-of-californians
darkwords wrote:
The hispanics I know don’t like Mexicans period.
R.I.P. Michael Nesmith
https://youtu.be/9ZiHjmE-5BI
darkwords wrote:
useless idiot that woman.three weeks out from the 2012 election she was debating whether or not to vote for Obama – again. And then she did. I have zero time for her
BREAKING: The CEOs of Target, Dick’s, Best Buy, Nordstrom, and CVS have asked Congress for help amid recent crime surges.
https://twitter.com/RyanAFournier/status/1469380435893383168
every one of them gave money to BLM. Fuck ’em
um…
JUST IN: Prosecution rests case in Ghislaine Maxwell trial
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1469418881202761729
At this point, I’ll believe the Pope was one of Epstein’s clients
eaglesoars wrote:
Bloody ETs dirtying up our planet!
🙂
Now the Mars Orbital Surveyor has got a shot of a disc crashed at the end of the largest canyon in the Solar System. Where to these hooning small greys get their saucer licenses? Of the backs of cornflakes packets?
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
@ lobo91:
@ coldwarrior:
The Royal Australian Airforce doing a little bit low flying between the high rise buildings in downtown Brisbane……. in C-17s…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxSyKSR_c3g&list=RDCMUC2ne2Dh50U9CBL4X3a-e-Gw
Aussie Infidel wrote:
WUT?
eaglesoars wrote:
Just to blow your mind Eagles. A former National Airways Corporation (AKA Air NZ) pilot friend of mine Bruce Cathie rides again a decade after his death. Bruce was a brilliant old skipper and I had the honor of co-piloting with him when I was a mere kid. Bruce had huge black eyebrows and black ‘crazy looking eyes’ but he was a great gentleman. Bruce wrote a whole bunch of books regarding UFOs and nuclear tech and we’d chat for hours in the air between take offs and landings. I read most of his early books especially the early ones. He came from a navigation background and that shows. His use of circular geometry was without peer. Anyway he stirred up a hornet’s nest and was ‘interviewed by the CIA who flew into NZ back in the day. Bruce was onto something and I disagreed with him especially on his claim that he could ‘predict’ when nukes could be detonated. Actually THAT was what attracted the CIA to come calling. Anyway enjoy….
Makes you think if nothing else Eagles.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3xp85/is-the-earth-a-g-crystal
@ eaglesoars:
A FE-18E Looow over the Brisbane CBD
🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxakfXUMDtE&list=RDCMUC2ne2Dh50U9CBL4X3a-e-Gw&index=4
Aussie Infidel wrote:
well…that was fun..I think.
Nice camera work on the FE-18E
I’ve had a crap day, going to bed. nite.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yep. Screw them. Sew the wind, reap the whirlwind. What did they think was going to happen? What are they asking for, money? Let the looters loot their stores and then expect the rest of us to pay them for it? Their policies prohibiting employees from doing anything when seeing shoplifting or stealing is their problem, not ours. But, this is the Biden, Pelosi, Schumer administration, they will probably give them tons of grant money for being in disadvantaged areas.
I have a cunning plan for work. It involves stuffed octopuses.
The boss is not at work Monday but I am. The plan is very simple.
I intend to take the bucket of stuffed octopuses and place them all over the store. Everywhere a customer looks there will be an octopus!
Hopefully either people will buy all of them.
Or, Tuesday morning I will get fired.
🙂
@ Possum Pureblood:
Why this frantic attempt to get rid of the stuffed octopuses you may ask?
Well for weeks they were all over the stock room. Every time I moved anything a box of fucking octopuses fell over and went everywhere and I had to catch them and put them back. ( they are in VERY slippery plastic bags )
The management solution was to put all the octopuses into a huge red plastic bucket thingy. About 25 gallons. Great!
That was all well and good until a 25 gallon bucket of stuffed octopuses fell on me when I was moving boxes around.
If I had 144 friends I would buy them all and send them as Christmas gifts.
Unfortunately I don’t.
Hey Bunk, If you receive a package from me you already know what it will be.
A fucking stuffed octopus!
On a totally unrelated topic what colour is the Grinch.
I am as colorblind as a bat but he looks orange to me.
Is it possible to sell all the orange stuff left over from Halloween as Grinch related things?
LOL
5% of men are colour blind….
Got it!
“The Grinch that stole Halloween”
Sneak preview of the blockbuster movie to be released October 2022.
Pre release merchandise available in selected stores January 2022. Limited to one item per customer.
( now all I need is someone to make me a sneek preview of a Grinch and a pumpkin )
Bunk! you busy?
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
oh man!
i’m bummed!
eaglesoars wrote:
rodan told us that this would happen
@ coldwarrior:
The English were wrecked by the Aussies on DAY FOUR!
They have just 5 days off to regroup and learn how to handle the Aussie Bowlers or as you opined it’ll be all over in three
🙂
@ coldwarrior:
South Australia’s turn to witness a test match. Adelaide should turn on some less wet conditions with probably a harder faster pitch. Roll on the Aussie pace attack followed by some spin on days 4 and 5 when the pitch begins to break up.
🙂
What do you think of that new Aussie skipper?
darkwords wrote:
i have a great pearl jam story for yinz.
wayyyy back in the early 90’s i was working next day air for ups on the ramp in pgh airport. pearl jam was in town and they were a backup to someone, meanwhile they were starting to get yuge. their tour changed and they needed all of their kit moved overnight out of pgh to another locale where they were now the headliner.
ups got hired by the record company to move their entire kit. their roadies showed up with an 18 wheeler and a large moving van full of gear (for perspective, the grateful dead used 13-20, pink floyd 11-15). pearl jam wasnt yuge yet….
with some creative maneuvers, we unloaded all of their gear into modular containers that fit in an cargo plane in about an hour, one of our 727s landed, got loaded up and they were gone in 95 minutes. their roadies were blown away by the efficiency and speed. they had too much stuff for a normal sort to louisville or phillie so one of our ‘on call’ 727s was flown in, i have no idea how much that costs!
just as we were getting done, the band showed up, thanked us with a delivery of a ton of pizzas and painted their symbol on one of the walls and signed it. i’m hoping that that section of wall didnt get knocked down when they expanded but i havent been in that building since 97.
the band signed everything they could, somewhere i have a ratty old teamster local 242 tee shirt, stained with av gas and grease, with all of their signatures.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
skip is the man.
that was a completely dominant performance.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
if they cant answer in the next test, it’s all over.
that was an ass beating
eaglesoars wrote:
are these more radio isotopes?
lol
@ eaglesoars:
befehl ist befehl
and not one fed or guard has said a word.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
i spend many hours taking to rodan about this. assuming the latins are a solid singular voting block is not only racist, its suicide.
peel off 50%, good enough. hell that is much better than idiot suburban college educated white women
Possum Pureblood wrote:
yep.
i’m one of em
there will be a new thread up for tomorrow
GO ARMY! BEAT NAVY!
coldwarrior wrote:
So how did you end up in the USA military?
I couldn’t join UK military.
@ Possum Pureblood:
Well I could. Only branch that would accept me was Royal Navy and only as a doctor.
So off to medical school I went.
Then as I didn’t really like the fact I would have to actually touch people ( I have this bubble thing, stay out of it! ) quit med school and went into computery things.
No military for me after that.
Possum Pureblood wrote:
my color vision problem is interesting, i see all colors but very muted. i found this out whne i started hand developing color photos…yeah, in chemicals…i’m old.
my prints were way to saturated, they looked right to me. but to everyone else they were way too vibrant. its an interesting genetic defect where there is a compensation. the reduced color vision is compensated by greater night vision, and i am 20/10 in both eyes.
for instance, blue and purple more or less look the same.mat night in a telescope i can see details and light that no one else can see.
there were times where i didn’t need night vision goggles. mind you, these were pretty crappy compared to what is out there today. i can see contrast better than most and can see it even better in crappy light
@ coldwarrior:
mrs coldwarrior has to approve items if i have to wear suit and tie
@ Possum Pureblood:
@ coldwarrior:
i would have been the ideal astronomer in the days of optic telescope astronomy
@ coldwarrior:
Just one quick Google about us disabled people and real life.
https://lifeonsphere.com/color-blind-people-can-spot-and-see-through-camouflage/
Bringing this to 2021 it is funny to see repaired cars with, what is to me, a really bad paint job.
Can’t tell yu what colour the car is, but can tell you front and driver door don’t match rest of car. LOL
@ coldwarrior:
I don’t have a Mrs or Ms or LBQT+ in my life. I HATE clothes shopping. Only go when ones I have wear out.
@ Possum Pureblood:
lol, yes!
when the military come out with digital cammo i was gob-smacked. i can see that shit at a million miles!
what you posted there makes perfect sense.
@ Possum Pureblood:
i wear matching ‘pajamas’ at work, no worries!
coldwarrior wrote:
My eyes are strange. I have never been identified as having any kind of color blindness and seem to be able to see some color variations others can’t. But, when I’m gaming I use my nvidia color adjustments and basically turn the saturation way up. I prefer high color vibrancy, it just looks “right” to me, more like I see the real world. Other people look at it and feel that it looks too bright and over saturated. Not sure what that is all about.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
that
Al Unser Sr has died.
we petrol heads mourn.
And once you make it known you may have defective colour vision you get asked ” how do you know which traffic light is red ”
Simple answer. The top one.
Also the fun one is when someone points to a fire engine and asks what colour it is and I answer “red”
“Well if you are colour blind how do you know it is red”
Answer is ” It is a fucking fire truck! They are always red. “
Just seen the time, bed for me.
I have to go to work Monday.
🙂
Possum Pureblood wrote:
our neighboring town had horizontal traffic lights and street lights that looked green.
i hated that joint
@ coldwarrior:
When I first came to Texas and encountered my first horizontal traffic light then horns were blown at me..
It was in Sherman, TX July I believe.
@ Possum Pureblood:
July 2014
hey y’all
the girl and I are fine, was a pretty good storm though
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2021/12/11/tornadoes-storms-death-destruction-across-south-midwest-damage-outages/6475192001/
@ rain of lead:
see yinz on the next thread
Possum Pureblood wrote:
Call Maria to set up an appointment and we’ll discuss how many octopi it will cost.
Actually, I am busy. No. 2 guy in the firm set an unreasonable deadline to get a project done (1st week of January), told the client then announced his holiday vacation plans. Almost immediately the others working on the project decided to take vacation time also, which leaves me, and I’m a part-time consultant.
I love it. Now there’s nobody in my way.
@ coldwarrior:
Hispanics are trans racial according to the DNC. They get relabeled white when a black person points a gun or car at them.
@ coldwarrior:
That’s something not in the history books til now.
@ Possum Pureblood:
I’m red green colorblind. I didn’t find out until my military physical. They give you that dot chart and some numbers I couldn’t see.
They still let me in but disallowed my from being an electrician or a pilot and a few other jobs.
I don’t think people understand color blindness well. I can see reds and greens but they go darker faster in low light situations. From what I can tell people see more shades and hues of red and green than I can. And there is a color called indigo that I can’t see at all. It just looks black to me.
Very gappy analysis.