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murdock » 24 Jul 2022, 9:05 pm » wrote: ↑

24 Jul 2022, 9:05 pm

You have me confused with your mommy.

Do you so often get confused with people's mommies, fruitcake, that you can diagnose the issue that quickly, with that level of certainty?

Shall we assume you are a Buttigieg voter? Ya got them skinny jeans and a manbun thing goin on?
 
 

Cannonpointer » 24 Jul 2022, 9:16 pm » wrote: ↑

24 Jul 2022, 9:16 pm

Seriously?

If I saw that group on The Office, then yeah. Funny. 

But here, it was just sad. If any of those guys gets laid, ever, there is no God.

I was more thinking of the shared experience of flooding and impromptu community cooperation. why put yourself out if there is no God??? Paywalled. They seem to have materialised in 2011 as a spontaneous response to the tragedy of the Summer of Disaster, yet Brisbane’s now famous “Mud Army’’ has a noble tradition stretching back more than one century.Organic, inclusive, free of government or even basic administrative oversight, the Mud Army represents all that is good about Queensland communities, illustrating that natural desire to assist others without any expectation of reward or recognition.In 1893, after the “Black February’’ floods when the Brisbane River burst its banks three times in four week, the then Mayor of South Brisbane Thomas Heaslop noted the spirit encapsulated by the Mud Army was already flourishing in a state capital which, relative to today, was little more than a shanty town.Thanking fundraisers who gathered money for the Flood Relief Distribution committee, Heaslop noted that many South Brisbane flood victims “appeared to forget their own losses in their solicitude for the suffering of others.’’“The calamity, dreadful though it was, was a means of good in one respect,’’ Heaslop noted in a report published in the Brisbane Courier following the floods.“It brought people of all shades of opinion and of all nationalities together to work for the common good and in the case of suffering humanity.’’Just over 80 years later the same spirit swept the city after the 1974 floods which cost 16 lives and peaked over the January Australia Day weekend.Neighbour helped neighbour and volunteers appeared from nowhere prompting a Courier Mail February 2 1974 editorial which said in part:“Queenslanders take a bow. This week in the face of disaster people have responded superbly.“Many flood victims have been awed by the way folk - often total strangers - spontaneously arrived to help.“There is no glamour in shovelling mud or scrubbing muck-encrusted walls.“It is hard, stinking drudgery.’’Yet it was only in mid January 2011, even before the flood waters had receded, that the “Mud Army’’ received its honorific and became a nationally recognised phenomenon.The 2011 Mud Army consisted of tens of thousands of people who, without any directive, arrived at flooded homes with rubber gloves, shovels and sometimes even heavy earthmoving equipment to clean up in an amiable atmosphere of shared endeavour.The power of social media almost certainly played a role in spreading the world of the movement, spurring others to join in what was, at times, a marauding, chaotic and utterly leaderless army driven not my conquest but compassion.Then Brisbane Mayor Campbell Newman, a passionate believer in the ability of ordinary people to deal with problems without the need for government interference, was ecstatic:“The volunteers turned out and that we cleaned up Brisbane and put it back on its feet .... we can hold our heads high forever after this,’’ he declared a year later.....(continued due to being too many characters...on next post)

https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/que ... 24d191775b

PS: I was there, but further up the Valley.

Greg
 

Cannonpointer » 24 Jul 2022, 9:33 pm » wrote: ↑

24 Jul 2022, 9:33 pm

Do you so often get confused with people's mommies, fruitcake, that you can diagnose the issue that quickly, with that level of certainty?

Shall we assume you are a Buttigieg voter? Ya got them skinny jeans and a manbun thing goin on?

Continued:

This week there are signs that this apparently infinite wellspring of charitable endeavour is being harnessed by a bureaucracy. The Brisbane City Council has called on new Mud Army recruits to “sign up,’’ and there are indications the army will be issued directives, such as starting off in the worst hit areas.Mayor Adrian Schrinner, talking with 4BC breakfast host Neil Breen earlier this week, was clearly impressed with the recruitment drive.“In a matter of hours, we got 8000 people sign up to Mud Army 2.0 and those registrations keep coming in,” Schrinner said.Yesterday the call went out from the Mayor’s office for the entire mud Army to stand down until Saturday because of concerns about severe weather.It’s a sensible move to give direction to a mass of people who, as homeowners discovered in 2011, could get a little too enthusiastic, throwing out damaged household items which may have been required to stay put for insurance assessments.But it is to be hoped that the army’s spirit is not going to be extinguished by the dead hand of bureaucracy.If it’s ever formalised into some form of government-funded program its soul will die, replaced by committees and advisory groups who will use terms like “service delivery’’ and “stake holders’’ and “placed based initiatives’’ to blast the benevolence out of something so benign – something so illustrative of the human spirit which, for all its faults, can be so selfless and kind when it witnesses another’s suffering.

No worries old bean.

Greg​​​​​​​

TrumpistaniALPHA » 24 Jul 2022, 10:39 pm » wrote: ↑

24 Jul 2022, 10:39 pm

Continued:

This week there are signs that this apparently infinite wellspring of charitable endeavour is being harnessed by a bureaucracy. The Brisbane City Council has called on new Mud Army recruits to “sign up,’’ and there are indications the army will be issued directives, such as starting off in the worst hit areas.Mayor Adrian Schrinner, talking with 4BC breakfast host Neil Breen earlier this week, was clearly impressed with the recruitment drive.“In a matter of hours, we got 8000 people sign up to Mud Army 2.0 and those registrations keep coming in,” Schrinner said.Yesterday the call went out from the Mayor’s office for the entire mud Army to stand down until Saturday because of concerns about severe weather.It’s a sensible move to give direction to a mass of people who, as homeowners discovered in 2011, could get a little too enthusiastic, throwing out damaged household items which may have been required to stay put for insurance assessments.But it is to be hoped that the army’s spirit is not going to be extinguished by the dead hand of bureaucracy.If it’s ever formalised into some form of government-funded program its soul will die, replaced by committees and advisory groups who will use terms like “service delivery’’ and “stake holders’’ and “placed based initiatives’’ to blast the benevolence out of something so benign – something so illustrative of the human spirit which, for all its faults, can be so selfless and kind when it witnesses another’s suffering.

No worries old bean.

Greg

Something I have often noticed - small minds are invariably extremely comfortable attacking the straw man of bureaucrcy. And I say, "straw man" because who would EVER defend bureucracy?

Well, you son of  bitch, you finally met the fellow who will - specificlly because you attack it.

Make us a quick list of successful empires, nation states or corporations that were not built on the backs of prodigious bureaucracies.

G'head. It won't take a minute.  

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TrumpistaniALPHA » 24 Jul 2022, 10:38 pm » wrote: ↑

24 Jul 2022, 10:38 pm

I was more thinking of the shared experience of flooding and impromptu community cooperation. why put yourself out if there is no God??? Paywalled. They seem to have materialised in 2011 as a spontaneous response to the tragedy of the Summer of Disaster, yet Brisbane’s now famous “Mud Army’’ has a noble tradition stretching back more than one century.Organic, inclusive, free of government or even basic administrative oversight, the Mud Army represents all that is good about Queensland communities, illustrating that natural desire to assist others without any expectation of reward or recognition.In 1893, after the “Black February’’ floods when the Brisbane River burst its banks three times in four week, the then Mayor of South Brisbane Thomas Heaslop noted the spirit encapsulated by the Mud Army was already flourishing in a state capital which, relative to today, was little more than a shanty town.Thanking fundraisers who gathered money for the Flood Relief Distribution committee, Heaslop noted that many South Brisbane flood victims “appeared to forget their own losses in their solicitude for the suffering of others.’’“The calamity, dreadful though it was, was a means of good in one respect,’’ Heaslop noted in a report published in the Brisbane Courier following the floods.“It brought people of all shades of opinion and of all nationalities together to work for the common good and in the case of suffering humanity.’’Just over 80 years later the same spirit swept the city after the 1974 floods which cost 16 lives and peaked over the January Australia Day weekend.Neighbour helped neighbour and volunteers appeared from nowhere prompting a Courier Mail February 2 1974 editorial which said in part:“Queenslanders take a bow. This week in the face of disaster people have responded superbly.“Many flood victims have been awed by the way folk - often total strangers - spontaneously arrived to help.“There is no glamour in shovelling mud or scrubbing muck-encrusted walls.“It is hard, stinking drudgery.’’Yet it was only in mid January 2011, even before the flood waters had receded, that the “Mud Army’’ received its honorific and became a nationally recognised phenomenon.The 2011 Mud Army consisted of tens of thousands of people who, without any directive, arrived at flooded homes with rubber gloves, shovels and sometimes even heavy earthmoving equipment to clean up in an amiable atmosphere of shared endeavour.The power of social media almost certainly played a role in spreading the world of the movement, spurring others to join in what was, at times, a marauding, chaotic and utterly leaderless army driven not my conquest but compassion.Then Brisbane Mayor Campbell Newman, a passionate believer in the ability of ordinary people to deal with problems without the need for government interference, was ecstatic:“The volunteers turned out and that we cleaned up Brisbane and put it back on its feet .... we can hold our heads high forever after this,’’ he declared a year later.....(continued due to being too many characters...on next post)

https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/que ... 24d191775b

PS: I was there, but further up the Valley.

Greg

Sounds like the sort of thing where all races and faiths and skin tones stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity. 

That's just great until sunset - and the *** start their raping.

You can have your mud army - I'll stick with my kind.
 

TrumpistaniALPHA » 24 Jul 2022, 9:12 pm » wrote: ↑

24 Jul 2022, 9:12 pm

lol. Could be old bean. Depends on how dumb the others are...bbl

Greg

Sir,
My father was a Missouri country boy.
He taught me many things.
One of them was this--

"The strong take away from the weak.
   But.......
   The smart......take away from the strong".

I like your company, Aussie-Dog.                                                       
 

TrumpistaniALPHA » 24 Jul 2022, 1:14 pm » wrote: ↑

24 Jul 2022, 1:14 pm

That's BORING, bru!!!

Greg

The psychotic bat is a total bore greg.... and so are you... please go away and go give stalky smoochies in the sewer...

 


 
 

TrumpistaniALPHA » 24 Jul 2022, 1:24 pm » wrote: ↑

24 Jul 2022, 1:24 pm

I suspect mental issues...

Damn... lol... you're so clueless, it's almost scary...

You seem quite the decent chap...

Oh boy... I'm not kidding greg... it is scary....

   



 
 

JinnMartini » 24 Jul 2022, 3:05 pm » wrote: ↑

24 Jul 2022, 3:05 pm

Just out of curiosity  . . .  feel free to ignore the query  . . .  

But how many times are you called an asshole, on average  . . .  on any given day ?

I bet a whole lot ?

You have no idea.... lol... on a good day I estimate about 15-20 times... he isn't called a-hole though... but fat *** gerg amounts to the same thing I guess...

 


 
 
 

TrumpistaniALPHA » 24 Jul 2022, 9:09 pm » wrote: ↑

24 Jul 2022, 9:09 pm

I've had you on ignore for months. lmao

Discuss you?? Nah!!!

Greg

Tell that to your Buddy 
Melt down Mike-ee-  who is on his 8th tribute thread on me..  now thats living in someones head rent free.   ya cant make this **** up.

Taipan » 24 Jul 2022, 3:29 pm » wrote: ↑

24 Jul 2022, 3:29 pm

OK.
I suspect that Mr. Australia........is the smartest dog in town....

Please... let it stop... lol... I couldn't stay last night.. afternoon... and now I have to read up on five pages of insanity...

You really are almost as dumb and clueless as fat *** gerg.... and I'm starting to have my doubts about the almost...

Ok, just two more pages to go, how bad can it get...

   



 
 

Jantje_Smit » 25 Jul 2022, 1:55 am » wrote: ↑

25 Jul 2022, 1:55 am

You have no idea.... lol... on a good day I estimate about 15-20 times... he isn't called a-hole though... but fat *** gerg amounts to the same thing I guess...
 

My take is that you meant on this here board alone ?
He has no life worth the name  . . .  but he'll have to shop occasionally  . . .  I bet they call him that even at the mall !

JinnMartini » 25 Jul 2022, 2:22 am » wrote: ↑

25 Jul 2022, 2:22 am

My take is that you meant on this here board alone ?
He has no life worth the name  . . .  but he'll have to shop occasionally  . . .  I bet they call him that even at the mall !

This is the cute-** Portrait*** We have of the two of them in BED together..
fat *** greg on the left- And  fama-d-gusta the BAT on the right.
Never gets Old Once again.        
 
 

sootedupCyndi » 25 Jul 2022, 2:51 am » wrote: ↑

25 Jul 2022, 2:51 am

This is the cute-** Portrait*** We have of the two of them in BED together..
fat *** greg on the left- And  fama-d-gusta the BAT on the right.
Never gets Old Once again.        
 

They're really so cute !
The both of them !

I did notice the bat is not suckling on a liberal  pacifier !


 
 

sootedupCyndi » 25 Jul 2022, 2:51 am » wrote: ↑

25 Jul 2022, 2:51 am

This is the cute-** Portrait*** We have of the two of them in BED together..
fat *** greg on the left- And  fama-d-gusta the BAT on the right.
Never gets Old Once again.        
 

Mirror mirror!!!



Your skin care doc called: 


[img]data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7[/img]Roll over image to zoom in

We are amused!!!

Greg
 
 
 

JinnMartini » 25 Jul 2022, 3:01 am » wrote: ↑

25 Jul 2022, 3:01 am

They're really so cute !
The both of them !

I did notice the bat is not suckling on a liberal  pacifier !

True that, a chip off the old block...in real life that is. lmao



Best of the best!!!!!

Greg​​​​​​​

JinnMartini » 25 Jul 2022, 3:01 am » wrote: ↑

25 Jul 2022, 3:01 am

They're really so cute !
The both of them !

I did notice the bat is not suckling on a liberal  pacifier !

"Pumpkin" has allied herself with revolting DemoKKKrat trash at another place. Hence she's on iggy; I assumed that her allies here were also left wing prats....even though she says she's "conservative"; being jealous of "betters" is a giveaway; soots is a closet socialist. Envies those better off than her.

Sad really; I quite liked her at the start of time. Then she turned on ME because I wouldn't turn on an old friend of whom she was jealous. Frankly more Demmy than pubby imo. You hang your petard where you will.

Greg

TrumpistaniALPHA » 25 Jul 2022, 3:58 am » wrote: ↑

25 Jul 2022, 3:58 am

Mirror mirror!!!



Your skin care doc called: 


[img]data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7[/img]Roll over image to zoom in

We are amused!!!

Greg

Fat *** gerg... we are really not amused.... I'm not kidding... you need to **** OFF and go back to the sewer... NOW!!!!

Oh, speaking of mirrors, get one for the irksome bat too while you're at it.... she will give you smoochies as a thank you...


 


 

JinnMartini » 25 Jul 2022, 3:01 am » wrote: ↑

25 Jul 2022, 3:01 am

They're really so cute !
The both of them !

I did notice the bat is not suckling on a liberal  pacifier !

They're called "flying foxes" here. Sometimes called "Old World fruit bats", but as they don't echo-locate they're sort of not fully aligned with bats. Parallel evolution springs to mind but hey; I've shot hundreds of the pests. Protecting Dad's lychee tress, avos and macadamia nuts. They squeal like soots when they're dropping!!!

lmao

Greg

 

Jantje_Smit » 25 Jul 2022, 4:17 am » wrote: ↑

25 Jul 2022, 4:17 am

Fat *** gerg... we are really not amused.... I'm not kidding... you need to **** OFF and go back to the sewer... NOW!!!!

Oh, speaking of mirrors, get one for the irksome bat too while you're at it.... she will give you smoochies as a thank you...

Oh piss off you drongo!!! You think she won't turn on you when you diss Palin as you so often have?? You're veg aligned on that one. 

You know you're aligned with the America-hating loons at the sewer. How would they describe our Sarah?? They'd fellate Hillary if they could......and no; I am using the correct term!!!

Greg