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1 hour ago, Evil Penevil said:

The "Bunnings Karen" video has attracted a lot of attention in the U.S. and gone viral.  You can read about it and see all the videos in this article in the Daily Mail:  'Bunnings Karen' unmasked: Woman who was arrested after confronting staff at a Melbourne hardware store is a sales consultant who prides herself on quality 'customer service'

It seems she is the Australian equivalent of U.S. crackpots who call themselves "sovereign citizens."  I don't want to get too political in this thread, but "sovereign citizens"  use very flawed reasoning  to justify defiance of local laws. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is an admirable statement on human rights, but it isn't binding on Australia or any other country.  Even when a country signs a binding international treaty,  that doesn't give its citizens the right to break local law.

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A few more snippets about the Bunnings Karen.

On Thursday, she posted in an Australian anti-vaxxer, 5G, conspiracy theorist group that
she’d begun the argument at her local chemist after being asked to wear a face mask.

The former iSelect worker appears to believe in a number of different conspiracy theories,
including that there is a mass global conspiracy to manipulate the population into wearing
face masks and social distance — and that these measures aren’t being used to stop the
spread of coronavirus.

Ms Nash also has shared content claiming that Microsoft founder Bill Gates is trying to
microchip the global population, and she says his face is untrustworthy.

Remind you of anyone we know?

 

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1 hour ago, fygjam said:

Remind you of anyone we know?

Kerry Nash has also said she believes mask wearers are driving up prices and ruining the scene for everyone, so it must be Gabor.   😁

Australia does seem to have more interesting Karens than the U.S. , where most are either suburban soccer moms or trailer park trash.

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Coronavirus denier Eve Black attends large 
conspiracy theory meeting at Cranbourne gym

Suzan Delibasic, Cranbourne Leader
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A conspiracy theorist who filmed herself laughing after breaching a police roadblock is at it again, attending a large gathering at a Cranbourne gym.

Eve Black, who calls the pandemic a “SCAMdemic” on social media and uploaded vision of her interaction with officers at a lockdown checkpoint last week, attended a large conspiracy theory meeting at The Combat Athlete gym in Cranbourne on Sunday night.

Nick Patterson posted a photo of the meeting on social media which showed the group were not social distancing or wearing masks.

Mr Patterson wrote: “A great night together discussing the putrid conduct of the police, government and media lies.”

“We are strong and won’t bow down to these oppressors,” he said.“Eve Black thank you for sharing your experience with us and how the Mainstream Media created a work of fiction. With their slanderous narrative to demonise you, a true libertarian.  God bless the righteous and give them power to prevail.”

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Black responded: “Thank you for having me there. It was so amazing to be in a room full of people who support and celebrate me during this tough time.”

Her actions last week were roundly condemned by politicians and health experts, and Ms Black is likely to receive a knock at her door from police.

Several conspiracy theorists also took to the Facebook congratulating the group on their efforts for holding the meeting.
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One person wrote: “Well done guys, Fight the power.”

Another wrote: “We must stand up we must stick together.”

It can also be revealed the group is planning to hold a meeting on Saturday, August 1 at 6pm.

Black has no regrets about her public stunt last week, posting a message on her Facebook page saying “I regret nothing. I’m just tired of the abuse and threats. Wake up, sleeper” with the emoji of a sheep.

She also posted a quote purportedly from Melbourne Supreme Court Justice Stephen Kaye saying “it is an ancient principle of the common law that a person under arrest has no obligation to stop for police or answer their questions."

Victoria Police has been contacted for comment.

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7 minutes ago, Evil Penevil said:

Kerry Nash has also said she believes mask wearers are driving up prices and ruining the scene for everyone, so it must be Gabor.   😁

 

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I hope someone explains to her that naked protests get a lot more publicity. 🙂

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I've had a bit of excitement during my "Stay-at-Home" days in Delaware:  two tornadoes and heavy, heavy rains, winds and storm damage in a five-day period.  On Tuesday a "shelter-in-place" order went out and we had to spend about 30 minutes in the basement waiting for the tornado to pass. When we were in the eye of the storm,  the sky turned an eerie pale yellow I've never seen before.  No wind or rain, perfectly calm.  There was no damage to my niece's house or property, possibly because she had all the trees trimmed and a dead one cut down a few weeks ago. 

Some pics from the area:

 

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The picture below was taken on a relative's property by a motion-sensor wildlife camera.  A mama bear and her four(!) cubs upended a deer feeder filled with corn and the camera caught their thievery.   One of the cubs is flat on its back, probably sleeping off a bellyful of corn.

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It's unusual for a bear sow to have four cubs survive.  That's most likely down to plenty of food in the area and a lack of predators big enough to take down a bear cub.

My relative is rethinking the placement of the deer feeder.  He doesn't want a return visit from the bear family.  He and his wife have a summer home on the property and it would be disastrous if five bears broke in and ransacked it. He's now researching ways to make the house "bear-proof."

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Plenty of bear sightings around my town lately too - there are two black bear sows, each with three cubs, that have been making the rounds and then this happened last week too not far from here:

 

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Grizzly killed in Marsh Lake after breaking into cabin with people inside

 

The bear was emaciated, according to a conservation officer

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A grizzly bear was killed over the weekend after breaking into a cabin with people inside in Marsh Lake, Yukon, according to the territorial government.

"This bear clearly knew that it was not in any condition to make it through the winter, so it was getting rather extreme in the lengths that it would go to to try and find food sources," David Bakica, a conservation officer for the Whitehorse district, said on Wednesday.

The problems with the bear date as far back as at least Aug. 11, when conservation officers were called to the area of McClintock Valley Road.

 

Bakica said the bear broke into a residence with someone inside. The person escaped through a back door, then went inside a travel trailer.  

When police arrived, the sound of their cars arriving scared the bear away, he said.

Later, conservation officers set up a trap, among other things, and they learned that the bear broke into several cabins, homes, and trailers.

"It broke through closed doors, broke the locks off just by smashing on the door," Bakica said.

The bear also ripped doors off of campers and broke through a window, he added.

Late Saturday, it broke into a cabin with two people inside, where it was shot by one of the occupants. The people weren't injured, Bakica said.

"This is a pretty unusual circumstance. Bears generally have a natural fear of humans, to the point where they won't go where there are strong human smells," Bakica said.

"This bear probably didn't realize there were people in the cabins, but this bear just simply didn't care."

He said the bear was emaciated and more than 30 years old.

Bakica said it's important that people think about how to properly manage things on their property that attract bears, such as food.

 

 

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KFC drops famous 'finger lickin' good' slogan amid COVID-19 pandemic

 
 
Kentucky Fried Chicken is pressing pause on its popular slogan "Finger lickin' good" during the fight against COVID-19.

The fast food chain said the 64-year-old slogan doesn't quite fit in the current environment. KFC released an ad on YouTube where it blurred out the slogan featured on old billboards and signs.
 
The company said the slogan won't be gone forever though. KFC plans bring the slogan back when the time is right.
 
 
KFC, like other restaurants, temporarily closed it dining rooms in March and encouraged customers to use the drive-thru or delivery.

Workers are now required to wear masks and go through a health screening before each shift.
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The female Black Lives Matter protester who showed her pussy to cops in Portland caused quit a stir in the U.S.  While police fired pepper balls at her, she put on a show wearing only a face mask and beanie cap for 15 minutes at 1.45 a.m. on a Saturday morning.  The cops retreated before she finished, which may have been mere coincidence or a tactical decision on their part because the show was attracting other protesters to the intersection.

 Dubbed "Naked Athena," the protester generated a huge amount of attention online and in the mainstream media.  I don't want to violate board rules, so I'm just embedding an innocuous clip and censored photo. You can find a longer video by doing a Google search for "Naked Athena full video."  The woman hasn't been identified, but she acknowledged in an interview with an alternate media reporter a few days later that she was a "sex worker" and mixed-race "person of color," but didn't get specific about the racial mix. In the U.S., "person of color" refers to anyone who is not a plain-vanilla white of European extraction.  From what can be seen of Naked Athena's face outside the mask, she looks Asian to me.

In any case, the video and pics went super-viral and were referred to in every U.S. mainstream print and TV news report.  I'm posting about the incident in this thread because of its entertainment value as a display of female flesh.  I don't want to spark a discussion of the political aspects of the BLM protests. If anyone tries, I won't respond other than to ask the Mods to remove such posts.  Feel free to comment on her tits and unshaved bush, but not the BLM movement or U.S. politics.

I made a reply on the political aspects of NA in the BLM US Civil War and Unrest in the Politics Club and that's the proper place for any political comments.

This isn't a new story; it happened on July 18. I didn't comment on it back then because I thought it was a stunt.  The initial reports said Naked Athena was doing nude yoga or striking "ballet poses," but that had me  8_roflmao.gif.f8711f9ddb9c3076e48f356bfd156c64.gif.  I thought the poses were static versions of what you see in a striptease or live cam show and had absolutely nothing to do with either yoga or ballet.  My suspicions were confirmed when the news broke she was a "sex worker,"  a term which in the U.S. includes strippers, webcam girls and porn models as well as prostitutes.

I am amazed the girl hasn't tried to earn money off the vast amount of publicity her Portland show generated.  She could have earned a million dollars by starting her own Web site with explicit pics and would have gotten huge fees as a headline performer in strip clubs.  She could have become the most famous porn star since Linda Lovelace and Traci Lords.

So far she hasn't.  Naked Athena with legs splayed in front of riot cops may go down as just one more footnote on what will go down as the most extraordinary summer in U.S. history.

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On 7/27/2020 at 2:05 PM, Bazle said:

I hope someone explains to her that naked protests get a lot more publicity. 🙂

Someone did!

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1 hour ago, Thai Spice said:

Really ? 

How the mighty have fallen .....

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I'm updating this topic for the first time in more than six months. I've adjusted to my secure-but-less-than-thrilling Covid lifestyle in the U.S.  There just isn't that much new to write about.

Something interesting did happen yesterday. A friend of my niece, call her Anna, had her car towed for parking in no-stop space in downtown Philadelphia. My niece was very busy with work and asked me if I could pick up her friend and help her get the car out of the impound lot.  Apparently Anna doesn't handle stressful situations well and my niece urged me to do the talking if any talking was required. The stress level at the impound office is sometimes thick enough to stick to the side of your face.

We had to go to the same impound lot that is featured in the episode of the series Parking Wars in the clip below:

Getting the car out of impound was uneventful in and of itself. However, an encounter with one of the other people in the line gave me my first face-to-face experience with the heightened racial tension that's gripped the U.S. since the death of George Floyd.  As we were moving away from the counter with the release document for the car, a husky Black guy who had been standing in the middle of the line blocked us and demanded to know why we had spent such a short time at the window.  He wanted to know if whites got special treatment. 

I took Anna by the elbow and tried to move around him without saying anything. He wouldn't let us pass and yelled, "Answer me!" in a tone loud enough to get everyone's attention. Anna looked like she was about to burst into tears.  To try to diffuse the situation, I said, in a calm voice, "We had all the documents in order."

Two other things happened simultaneously with my answer.  The clerk in the window yelled at him to let us go and a supervisor emerged from the locked and very sturdy door to the impound office. She told the guy to step aside or she would call the police and have him arrested.  She also reminded him the impound office can refuse service to anyone who is uncooperative. All the employees at the impound office that afternoon were Black.

I said a quick, "Thank you," to the supervisor, she nodded and we quickly walked past the guy.  We got out of the office as fast as we could, leaving him to argue with the supervisor. Once outside, I asked Anna if she was calm enough to drive her car.  She said she could drive out of the lot, but wanted to wait a bit before the 45-minute drive home.  She reclaimed her car, I drove my niece's car and we stopped at a nearby Burger King for coffee.  We talked through what had happened and after about 20 minutes, she said she was ready to go.  We drove back to her home, near my niece's, without incident.

Anna had all the required documents in order and paid the fine and towing charges online before we went to the impound lot.  When we arrived, there was a line but not as long as in the video.  SHe stood in line for about 30 minutes while I sat on the sidelines reading my Kindle. I joined her when she got to the counter.  The clerk looked at her car registration, proof of insurance, driver's license and receipt of payment of the fines.  The clerk also checked the computer to make sure she didn't have any warrants, additional fines or other restrictions on getting her car back.  Anna didn't and we cleared the window in two minutes.

A lot of people take longer because they don't have the correct paperwork and have to make multiple visits to the window.  Anna may be a Nervous Nelly but she's no dummy. Unlike most drivers, she kept her car registration and insurance card in her purse, not the car's glove compartment.  She didn't have to stand in line to get access to her car, then line up again to show the documents to the clerk.  She also didn't have to stand in line to pay the fine because she'd already paid online.

What really takes a long time is when the person doesn't have up-to-date insurance or car registration. That could involve numerous trips to the impound window.

Of course, none of this has to do with white skin privilege.  It's all down to "proper preparation privilege," which anyone of any race can have.

Another clip from the Parking Wars series:

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1 hour ago, Evil Penevil said:

Of course, none of this has to do with white skin privilege.  It's all down to "proper preparation privilege," which anyone of any race can have.

 

Congratulations and celebrations for a job well done. I can visualise that self satisfied look from here. 😉

"Poor preparation results in poor performance" so it follows the opposite surely must prevail.

I used to think like that everytime I entered Immigration until Murphy's Law intervened and I discovered they had moved the goalposts......again!

We live in a very complicated world and it is increasingly difficult to know one's way round all the rules and regulations. Even when you do, here comes Murphy to f**k up your day.

The last time I booked a flight to the UK I went online; found the flight; booked it; paid for it and printed out my flight ticket. Job done in 20 minutes. I am trying to repeat that exercise right now for a trip back to Scotland for an extended visit to my family I have not seen for 4 years. The hoops you have to go through are daunting and I fear something is going to go wrong however much I have studied the rules and regulations.

I was told a story about 10 days ago regarding a friend of a friend of mine who must have completed the exercise I am in the course of working my way through right now. He was 3 days away from departure and visited BPH for his Covid test and to collect his "Fit to Fly" document. In came Murphy when he received the great news that without any symptoms he had tested positive and would have to stay in quarantine at BPH at a cost of...................................................................

30,000 baht per night! 😪

It took a solicitor's intervention to reduce that to 8,000 baht per night. He had no symptoms so presumably no treatment needed.

It seems that even when you do everything correctly there is little you can do when in comes Murphy.

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10 hours ago, Jambo said:

Congratulations and celebrations for a job well done. I can visualise that self satisfied look from here. 😉

"Poor preparation results in poor performance" so it follows the opposite surely must prevail.

I used to think like that everytime I entered Immigration until Murphy's Law intervened and I discovered they had moved the goalposts......again!

We live in a very complicated world and it is increasingly difficult to know one's way round all the rules and regulations. Even when you do, here comes Murphy to f**k up your day.

The last time I booked a flight to the UK I went online; found the flight; booked it; paid for it and printed out my flight ticket. Job done in 20 minutes. I am trying to repeat that exercise right now for a trip back to Scotland for an extended visit to my family I have not seen for 4 years. The hoops you have to go through are daunting and I fear something is going to go wrong however much I have studied the rules and regulations.

I was told a story about 10 days ago regarding a friend of a friend of mine who must have completed the exercise I am in the course of working my way through right now. He was 3 days away from departure and visited BPH for his Covid test and to collect his "Fit to Fly" document. In came Murphy when he received the great news that without any symptoms he had tested positive and would have to stay in quarantine at BPH at a cost of...................................................................

30,000 baht per night! 😪

It took a solicitor's intervention to reduce that to 8,000 baht per night. He had no symptoms so presumably no treatment needed.

It seems that even when you do everything correctly there is little you can do when in comes Murphy.

You watching the Scottish Cup Final with that great Hibs fan wee John. ??

You liked Hearts so will probably be cheering for the light blues.

Good to see two newish teams in there 

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11 hours ago, Jambo said:

Congratulations and celebrations for a job well done. I can visualise that self satisfied look from here. 😉

"Poor preparation results in poor performance" so it follows the opposite surely must prevail.

Also known as 6P: Proper Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance.

11 hours ago, Jambo said:

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It seems that even when you do everything correctly there is little you can do when it comes Murphy.

The only thing you can do when it comes to Murphy is be prepared, he will show up.

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It's odd how racial tension varies depending upon the area and situation.

The worst racial tension I've ever seen or experienced was in Manila, specifically the Manila Bay Cafe where a black guy was doing a very good job of almost getting himself carved up like a cake by picking fights with guys in the bar, he eventually got kicked out but not after managing to wind someone up enough that they hit him over the head with a bottle. All over some kind of black / white preference thing that got lost in translation.

I've also seen it in shops, cafes, restaurants and even on public transport. What strikes me as the one consistent thing in all of the anecdotal things I've witnessed is that it's never the fault of the black person and always unfair treatment inflicted on them, despite not having enough money, being disorganised, turning up at the wrong time or for another reason which could, with a bit of planning , been avoided. this is of course also very true of whites, who will instead blame an inefficient system,. the person behind the counter or poor government policy,  but it seems that pulling the race card is a weapon used in the arsenal of many non whites and white non Nationals as an excuse for their own poor level of planning or, to be very blunt, lack of intelligence.

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3 hours ago, Butch said:

It's odd how racial tension varies depending upon the area and situation.

The worst racial tension I've ever seen or experienced was in Manila, specifically the Manila Bay Cafe where a black guy was doing a very good job of almost getting himself carved up like a cake by picking fights with guys in the bar, he eventually got kicked out but not after managing to wind someone up enough that they hit him over the head with a bottle. All over some kind of black / white preference thing that got lost in translation.

I've also seen it in shops, cafes, restaurants and even on public transport. What strikes me as the one consistent thing in all of the anecdotal things I've witnessed is that it's never the fault of the black person and always unfair treatment inflicted on them, despite not having enough money, being disorganised, turning up at the wrong time or for another reason which could, with a bit of planning , been avoided. this is of course also very true of whites, who will instead blame an inefficient system,. the person behind the counter or poor government policy,  but it seems that pulling the race card is a weapon used in the arsenal of many non whites and white non Nationals as an excuse for their own poor level of planning or, to be very blunt, lack of intelligence.

Also for behaving like antisocial assholes.

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I'm  watching TV news and searching the Internet to get a handle on how much damage was done by Hurricane Ida. We were bombarded Wednesday with warnings of tornadoes and flash floods, but our immediate area escaped any serious damage.

At least 45 dead in Northeast after Ida remnants drench region with unprecedented flooding

"At least 58 deaths so far have been blamed on Hurricane Ida, including 13 in the South, and 45 in the Northeast, where remnants form the storm tore through the region on Wednesday.

"In Louisiana, where the storm made landfall, the power is still out for hundreds of thousands of people. That means shortages of food, water and fuel. President Joe Biden will visit the area later today.

"Across the Northeast, record rainfall caused unprecedented flooding, catching many people by surprise in their cars and homes, requiring rescues by first responders from rising tides and powerful floods."

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According to reports, the Northeast of the U.S. has never experienced such intense flooding. In my lifetime, I've certainly never seen or heard of any flooding that bad in the Northeast. There's a lot of speculation the number of deaths will rise sharply once the waters have subsided and welfare checks are done on people who live alone. Quite a few homeless people are expected to have been swept away in some of the floods.

The area where I'm living now escaped almost all the damage, even though areas to the immediate north, south and west were hit hard. We had to shelter in the basement for an hour due to warnings of a tornado passing directly over us, but the path missed us by about 20 miles. That was the only (minor) inconvenience we suffered. No interruptions of electricity or the Internet.

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