Since we don’t live by politix alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
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Sittin’ under Sir Henry’s car Noticed few feral moggies in our street we havnt seen befor. Ho ho we’ll decide who comes to this street and circumstances in which they come. Rrrraaaooo.
Sit under that car (should protect you from dogs) & keep on deciding who enters your street Enzo (provided no dogs around).
But stand atop the paling fence between my & the alley howling your macho hiss again, & my double-barrel 12 gauge will be coming out from under the bed.
Bad idea keeping firearms under the bed Stevie (unelss they’s not registered, but it’d be the first place they’d look anyways): dust, and getting the shotty out in a hurry could do yourself an injury.
Yesterday I witnessed an organised church party exorcise the demon spirits from a local lookout here in Canberra. Amusing but worrying…
Enzo, firearms under the bed are indeed bad for toms who are apt to start caterwaulin’ from atop the paling fence adjacent my bedroom window.
..That bit about dust, judging me by the standards of your owner? That bit about doing myself an injury reaching under the bed? Perhaps you may injure yourself, however instead of a short leg ending in a soft paw, I am blessed with arms that have both oscillating and articulating joints, and a hand with 5 fingers.
Bring the 12 gauge to bear won’t be a problem.
The registration status of the shotgun firing the fatal charge won’t be relevant to the sleep-disturbing tom who has just been killed….
Some time back I got into an exchange with some of the regulars here (wish I could dig it up but the search system here isn’t very effective) on carbon tax versus ETS … My point then was that carbon tax proposals were really the preference of the opponents of mitigation. I responded that an ETS was going to be harder to dislodge because it wedged business. Some expressed shock at this but I note today’s article in the Australian by Hawke-era right winger Peter Walsh …
Tax carbon to stop corruption
Now you thought that was going to be a piece on the realtive merits of an ETS and carbon taxing, didn’t you? Nah ah …
Most of the article is an extended rant touching bases with some of the more fruitloop arguments of the enemies of mitigation — corrupt scientists, government control of our lives, socialist lefties and latte sippers, rent seeking bankers, greenies rule the world, the ABC and Fairfax are in on it … yada yada
But eventually he does get to taxing carbon ….
Very neat …
One of my earliest memories is dad in his undies shooting at feral cats from a bedroom window. The kid’s bedroom window. I think it was a .22.
Well, I had a normal weekend, not spent dreaming up disgusting metaphors about how I would shoot refugees if they set foot on Australian soil, SATP. Normally I find you mildly amusing . Not your latest riposte though.
Now, onto normal everyday life. Saturday, finished chapter 3 of my book. Watched Pirates of the Caribbean 3 for the second time. (forgot I’d seen it.) read a little of The Hemingses of Monticello. Took some notes on battle of Bunker Hill ffrom John R. Elting’s The Battle of Bunker’s Hill. Sat TV. Watched The Cardinal on ABC2. (Yeah, I missed The Bill. I am not entirely a creature of habit.)
Sunday. Woke early. Finally seem to have my sleeping patterns in order.Note-taking on Bunker Hill. watched Insiders. In two mind if K.rudd will get away with the Indonesian solution or the electorate will revert to rancid Howardism on refugees. As for the carbon credit scheme or whatever its called, given the uselessness of both the ALP and the Coalition on this issue so far as I’m concerned you can toss them both in the garbage.Spent the morning taking notes on Bunker Hill. Watched some American spy-scandal on DVD. Read a bit of Hemingses of Monticello. More note-taking. Sunday night TV, really enjoyed 39 Steps. Its been generations since I’ve read it. Had to study it in second year of secondary school, if I remember rightly, and have vague recollections of the Kenneth More movie. Really looking forward to Wuthering Heights next Sunday, but does anybody else feel it doesn’t seem right in colour? Its a kind of b/w story.
Err, Paul, sometimes a cat is just a cat.
Not that it’s particularly cool to go shooting them just for keeping you up at night, but still…
I helped a friend move on both Saturday and Sunday. Lots and lots of bookcases and absinthe and other things needed to go from point A to point B. He made it.
FDB @ 9,
I had a friend used to shoot cats and he made rugs out of their skin. If I’ve been overly sensitive on the refugees isue, regrets.
Don’t worry about me Paul, I just thought you were being a tad harsh on SATP.
And if anyone shoots either of my cats, I’ll make a sofa from their tanned hide.
Wrrrrrrrraoooo, rrrrraoooo oooeeeeeeoooowwwwww, eaaaooo, rrrrraoooo oooeeeeeeoooowwwwww. He he he haw haw haw. See? Your bloodthirsty threats are wholly meaningless here Steve@thePubbb. That’s because neither you nor your shotgun (what is it with you and guns anyway? says he crooking his little pinkie) actually exist here on the intertube, nor would any bang bang you SAY you would create: no cordite, no pellets, the only things that filter through are words and the quality of the ideas behind them. Scary thought isn’t it – you catually have to argue your case not intimidate your way out with gunzzzzz. I fart in your general direction.
“catually “
Rrrrao, that was an intended catpun, thank you.
Mods: can someone delete #14? It makes my arse look big.
I have a friend whose childhood pet cat was shot with a smallbore rifle. That was in Blacktown in the ’80s, hardly the kind of place you’d generally use a window as firing position (or maybe it was, I don’t know).
Anyway, these days he’s a hardcore left-wing trade unionist. So Pub Steve, if what you want to do is breed more left-wing trade unionists to organise workplaces in 20 years time, by all means, blast away at all the cats you can see.
Liam, I think you’re confusing correlation with causation (and from a smallish sample, at that). I’m fairly left wing, and I never lost a cat in a firefight.
Well, as left wing as I am also, I’ve never had a cat, DI(nr), so I wouldn’t know.
I think I’ll have to make sure that if I do ever have a cat, it’s properly prepared with demolition explosives so that it can properly retaliate to anyone sniping from book depositories as it free-falls, however. And I’ll certainly put the whole show on youtube.
Exploding Kung-fu Cats in Freefall – No Longer Controversial.
Liam, I’d just make sure that your hypothetical cat was carrying a concealed rocket launcher, or something. That’d make any sniper think twice. It’s a bit more directional than a shaped charge.
Rock Climbers And Rope Engineers For Truth – NIST Forced To Admit Chris O’Donnell’s Claims.
Actually there is no paling fence beside my bedroom window, & thus no tom caterwaulin’ on it from time to time. One of my co-workers once lost a rather expensive rare breed tomcat to exactly that.
I’ve often set cat traps, & am amazed at how many I catch. (28 in 3 weeks, all of them wild, not one a pet, right in the middle of town)
To the best of my knowledge I’ve never hit a feral cat, thought I’ve been fast to aim at times, they are faster little blighters. My shooting wasn’t that bad at times, but they are a fast moving small target that appears & is out of sight again within 2 seconds.
Actually, it is a bit of a challenge to shoot a cat even when it is inside a cat trap!
S’pose Mine Host serves ‘em up in the pub special catsasagna.
Coises! Joe2 has revealed the secret ingredient in best selling recipe!
S’pose everybody’ll be selling it now….
Siamese cats are more like dogs. So they’re better than any other cat. Just sayin’.
(years ago i had one. It used to regularly climb curtains.)
Paul, but do siamese taste any better than dog?
Of course they do: Siamese are Thai, and Thai cuisine is the flavour du jour
Not that I would accuse Steve’s pub kitchen of committing “cuisine”, mind.
Steakburger with steak chips and steak salad?
served with a very nice steak sauce, and the steak knives are FREE
“We do OK by you Mistah Steve? We very nice cat, good and plump.”
A unique approach, has our Brendan
More like rabbit.