Straya!

[pErvinalia]

Good luck with that.

[macdoc]

So speculating. I'm not.

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I've bought quite a few things. One balaclava was $34.95 on Amazon...$9.99 on Temu..shipped.
They have stocking warehouses in Australia as well with lower costs.

[Brian Peacock]

You buy stockings too?

[macdoc]

If you mean socks yes ...tights I already have two pairs that were previously used for riding in the winter in Canada and relegated to anti-mozzie ware here.

Beyond that I can't fathom what the fuck you are on about

[JimC]

If you mean socks yes ...tights I already have two pairs that were previously used for riding in the winter in Canada and relegated to anti-mozzie ware here.

Beyond that I can't fathom what the fuck you are on about

"stocking warehouses"

[pErvinalia]

It's that time of year again for the annual culture wars from the far and farish right. Dutton's favourite time of year.

[macdoc]

You should be punished severely for inflicting that on my aging mental facilities Fitting

[JimC]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-29/ ... /104871212

n extensive aerial and sea search has failed to locate a rogue crocodile spotted on a beach in Queensland's Wide Bay region last week.

The reptile was seen at a popular camping and fishing spot at Bundaberg's Coonarr Beach, about 150 kilometres outside normal crocodile habitat.

Senior wildlife officer Tony Frisby, from the Department of Environment and Science, said officers in boats and a helicopter searched a large area of the coastline but did not find the animal.

"We [conducted] over 450km of aerial surveys, land surveys and sea assessments," he said.

"We have had no further reports of the crocodile in that region."

Queensland's crocodile country stretches from the state's far north to the Boyne River, south of Gladstone.

Mr Frisby said that was most likely where the crocodile came from.

"North Queensland has been receiving large amounts of rainfall, which may have flushed the animal out of its normal habitat," he said.

"The animal could have got into a current [and] was just very lazy and drifted south."

[pErvinalia]

Lazy crocodiles.

[JimC]

There has been a recent increase in anti-semitic graffiti and other actions in Oz. It seems that there are two disparate sources. One, clearly is the usual white supremacist/neo-nazi movements - as shown by this example:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-05/ ... /104898736

A Perth court has been told one of two men arrested in connection with a spate of antisemitic graffiti incidents across Perth had messages referencing Hitler on his phone.

The Perth Magistrates Court heard the messages were found on a phone belonging to Damian Joshua Arkeveld, who appeared in court today, as did his co-accused Justin Charles Robinson.

One of the messages read: 'Hitler was correct', the police prosecutor told the court.

A wall outside a home on Viking Road in Dalkeith was spray-painted with a Nazi swastika and the words 'f… Jews" on Sunday.

On the same road, a for sale sign and a give way sign were also spray painted with antisemitic graffiti.

The other is from the extreme left/pro-Palestine crowd, or at least those portions who have inexcusably drifted from robust criticism of the current Israeli government actions into blanket hatred of Jews. The irony, of course, is that those two sources of anti-semitism would usually be at each other's throats...

[NineBerry]

Some might also be false flag activities by Russian agents. There was clear evidence of Russian agents placing antisemitic graffiti on buildings to influence public discourse before elections in France and Germany.

https://www.france24.com/en/france/2024 ... ross-paris

[Svartalf]

our Jews are nice, it's the israeli nazi imitators that are the problem

[JimC]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-07/ ... /104908510

Snake catchers have caught 102 red-bellied black snakes in a backyard nest in Sydney's west.
There were so many snakes that the home owners had to help round up all the reptiles.

[JimC]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-07/ ... /104905758

A controversial West Australian MP has legally changed his name to Austin Trump, aka "Aussie" Trump.
A month out from the state election, the response from voters in his electorate has been mostly negative
Political analysts say it is an extreme sign of a nascent trend of conservative politicians aligning themselves with the new US president.

Analysts say the decision by an outcast West Australian state politician to change his name to Austin "Aussie" Trump could be an early sign of Trumpist tactics taking hold in a dual election year.

The independent politician, formerly known as Benjamin Letts Dawkins, served in the Legislative Council as the member for the South West region in the most recent term of parliament.

Originally a Labor MLC, Mr Trump was expelled from the party after pleading guilty to 35 breaches of a domestic violence restraining order, related to his former partner.

He switched to One Nation and had been tapped to lead their Legislative Council ticket, only for party leader Pauline Hanson to dump him from the role.

Shit for brains...

[pErvinalia]

What's worse than being in an American cult in America? Being in an American cult in Australia.