Open house

Posted on December 31, 2011 by KG

Just don’t make a mess, ok?

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  1. Grant S says:
    December 31, 2011 at 06:58

    My Valiant is finally going. 265 Hemi six, individual coils, fuel injection, electronic engine management. Good.

  2. The Gantt Guy says:
    December 31, 2011 at 07:44

    Why it can’t, under any possible scenario, be Uncle Doofus:

    http://www.trevorloudon.com/2011/12/ron-paul’s-words-opposes-israel-as-aggressors-israel’s-arabs-their-victims/

    Why Coulter thinks it has to be Romney:

    http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2011-12-28.html

    I know Redbaiter has a different view, but if it comes down to a choice between Paul, Gingrich and Romney (which it’s looking like it will) it has to be Romney. Perhaps with some balance: Bachmann for Veep?

    • KG says:
      December 31, 2011 at 09:29

      Bachman for VP would be good, if it grooms her for the top job down the track.
      I just hatehatehate the idea of Romney though. It would be kicking the can down the road, more of the same etc etc.
      Where have we seen the “vote for anybody the establishment offers in order to get rid of….” before?
      It doesn’t work. Fixes nothing. Business and corruption as usual. I’m with RB–better to see collapse and chaos and try to build something better out of that.
      Hell, I’d prefer civil war and fighting in the streets all over the West, anarchy and chaos, than see business as usual, as crony capitalism and crony socialism lead us into serfdom.

      • The Gantt Guy says:
        December 31, 2011 at 09:43

        Yup. 4 more Obama years, or 4 years of Newt would almost guarantee that outcome. The end result of the Romney Highway is exactly the same destination, just a slightly slower pace.

        Perhaps if it is Romney/Bachmann, a fatal heart attack could be engineered towards the end of 2015?

        • Darin says:
          December 31, 2011 at 09:54

          ONE THING is for sure,we don’t need an idiot third party candidate running and splitting the vote as did Ross Perot in 92′ a repeat of that disaster would put Obama back in without even a fight.

          H.W,Bush would have won in a landslide had Perot not screwed up the works and the nightmare of Clinton would have never been.

    • The Gantt Guy says:
      January 2, 2012 at 09:03

      Update: Ann Barnhardt on why it absolutely cannot and must not be Romney:

      http://youtu.be/9uBckRBgh48

      “Go home, Willard!”

  3. mort says:
    December 31, 2011 at 10:19

    Should we be surprised if someone like Nick Smith gets a gong next year for something like services to being a 2 faced masturbatory liar?

    • Brooding Log Cabin Nutter says:
      December 31, 2011 at 10:37

      No.

      They’re all 2 faced masturbatory liars.

      Looks like the usual collection of bloated – in both senses of the word – business and/or c*ck sucking sh*theads along with never was, never will be know nothings and the rest of the filthy turd infested scum that has inevitably risen to float on top of the sewage pond after ripping everyone else off and treading them into the filth on their rush up the greasy pole.

      Forgive my mixing metaphors, it’s my passionate disapproval of these “people” that’s unfortunately got the better of me don’tcha know!

  4. KG says:
    December 31, 2011 at 11:36

    :mrgreen: :lol: spot-on analysis though, mixed metaphors or not.

  5. Brooding Log Cabin Nutter says:
    December 31, 2011 at 11:49

    Here’s another trougher stealing us – well the POMS anyway – blind and lying to our faces and we know it too, whilst his f*cking mates join him arses up, snouts down into the seemingly bottomless pit of public money stolen off us in taxes.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/8985698/Jeremy-Hunt-London-2012-Olympics-will-not-be-austerity-Olympics.html

    How is these Cunts like Hunt – I can use that word because that’s what a BBC Radio interviewer called him in a Freudian slip a couple of months ago – continue to get away with shite like “The Olympics are good for the economy and we should all be excited about the prospect of it possibly lifting us out of recession” They’re expecting to spend more than 10 billion – yes BILLION! – pounds so far on bringing the Olympics to London, (and you know what inevitably happens to government ‘estimates’: they’re usually out by a least a factor of 3) a hell of a lot of that, if history is any indication, going in way of bribes to Olympic officials. And all the best seats it seems (Ladies beach volley ball yum, yum!) are all already booked out to them self-same officials, politicians and their other bribe givers like Coca-Cola and Nike CEO’s etc but if you want to watch the heats of one-legged gay dwarf wrestling at 3AM then fill your boots.

    We get the same utter f*cking shite every year from our local politicians here in NZ when they want to be seen associating with cool looking dudes who want to race their boys-toys cars round our closed off city streets. Much to the annoyance of every one else. F*cking cock-sucking morons the lot of them.

    • KG says:
      December 31, 2011 at 12:22

      Yep. I’m more than ever convinced that these extravaganzas are merely a way for those in “The Club” to channel money to themselves, their associates and friends. And the vast hordes of clowns out there fall for the bread-and-circuses thing every time.
      What’s more, instead of widespread revulsion and anger at this, there’s a scramble to get the EBO (ethics bypass operation) and climb into the trough with them.
      *spit*

      • Brooding Log Cabin Nutter says:
        December 31, 2011 at 12:50

        And nobody cares, nobody bothers KG, that’s what really feeds my anger. There’s been stories appearing for several years now in the British press, of elderly people in so-called care homes who have difficulty feeding themselves being left unfed, having to drink water from flower vases and lying in unchanged, excrement filled bed sheets growing – and dying with – massive bed sores whilst overworked staff following Health and Safety rules – only for themselves of course – make sure they have all their smoko breaks etc on time and that they never lift anything that might exert them. And apart from the relatives of such elderly people – where there are any – who have no voice at all, no one gives a stuff.
        I genuinely feel like I’m living in a real world version of “The Invasion of The Body Snatchers”. We’re surrounded by Zombies. All those I complain about above are just going to continue on with what they are doing and I very much doubt the walking undead can do anything, even if they wanted too.

        • Kris K says:
          December 31, 2011 at 12:58

          Signs of the [biblical end] times, sadly BLCN. And it’s only going to get worse here on in.

          Your zombie analogy is spot on.

          • Brooding Log Cabin Nutter says:
            December 31, 2011 at 13:12

            “Signs of the [biblical end] times” I suspect you may be right Kris, and that because history records much worse in the past – fall of the Temple in 70AD and Christian sufferings and martyrdoms as a start – things are going to have to get much worse before the apocolypse sets in.

          • Andrei says:
            December 31, 2011 at 13:30

            I don’t know about biblical end times but western civilization has had it.

            I was watching a show about British army recruits, about 30% female and after completing a night time exercise the sergeant major said You did very well – have a group hug I kid you not!

            Y’all reckon Vlad’s boys have “group hugs”?

            • Kris K says:
              December 31, 2011 at 13:41

              … and I bet a good number of the other 70% had their penises taped up their bum cracks as well – ‘front-bums’ being the preferred class and all.

            • Brooding Log Cabin Nutter says:
              December 31, 2011 at 13:49

              My nice lady GP is an ex British Army Medic and I told her I’d like to see her jelly wrestling in a camo bikini but that’s all. Women fighting, whether it’s with guns of gloves in a boxing ring doesn’t do it for me I’m afraid and I’d go as far as to say it’s an affront against nature.
              My GP was amused by the way.

              • KG says:
                December 31, 2011 at 17:02

                Here’s a tonic, Log. No shielas here:
                http://youtu.be/7vlcuvrM1po
                :smile:

              • Brooding Log Cabin Nutter says:
                December 31, 2011 at 18:47

                Got me going for a moment there KG – I thought it was going to be jelly wrestling! Seriously though, and a wee bit off topic: that Youtube film reminds me I visited The Surgeons Museum in Edinburgh last August and they have the head of one of Wellington’s men there on display and who lost a saucer sized piece of bone out of his skull at the battle of Waterloo. He apparently went on to live into old age in that condition, G*d knows how or what sort of life he was able to lead, but it was kind of funny to come out of the museum later, walk down the street and come across yer man Wellington there astride his mighty horse “Copenhagen” and who of course later went into politics, became a well loved figure and Prime Minister of Great Britain. Bit of a contrast between the lives of the Great Man and his lowly underling after Waterloo hey?

  6. KG says:
    December 31, 2011 at 13:14

    I’d like to see BLCN do a guest rant…..he articulates perfectly what I feel and I’m sure it’s not just me.
    We’re about to put one up by Darin and it’d be good to see that follow his.

    • Brooding Log Cabin Nutter says:
      December 31, 2011 at 13:52

      Thanks for the kind words and thought KG but I’m – and I thought you would be too by now! – kinda all ranted out for the day! I gotta feed my furry creatures and get my dinner done on this piss wet through New Years eve in li’l ‘ol NZ!

    • The Gantt Guy says:
      December 31, 2011 at 14:16

      Absolutely agreed and seconded. It’s like I don’t have to do the screaming Amy mre coz he’s done it for me!

      • Brooding Log Cabin Nutter says:
        December 31, 2011 at 14:40

        Hi Gantt

        What’s with the avatar – Welsh Lion and Scottish Flag, Cross of St Andrew? Maybe I should put you up for the green white and gold of my own dear Ireland as well then you’ve got all the UK’s Celtic variations under your hat!

  7. WAKE UP says:
    December 31, 2011 at 14:27

    Once again the NZ Herald has announced that we are the oh I dunno fourth I think most obese nation on the planet. No we’re not – a certain segment of our population is. Break that statistic down by ethnicity, age, culture, immigration status and a few other factors and suddenly you have a different truth entirely.

  8. WAKE UP says:
    December 31, 2011 at 14:33

    PS – from back at the beginning, from Gannt: “I know Redbaiter has a different view, but if it comes down to a choice between Paul, Gingrich and Romney (which it’s looking like it will) it has to be Romney. ”

    I don’t EVER want to hear the phrase ” it has to be Romney. “

    • The Gantt Guy says:
      December 31, 2011 at 14:41

      Sorry Wakey. I was hoping to get away with it by putting the caveat at the front, but you’re right. No matter the caveats, get-out-of-jails or weasel-words you link it with, that phrase should *never* be heard. :oops:

    • Redbaiter says:
      December 31, 2011 at 16:32

      “I don’t EVER want to hear the phrase ” it has to be Romney. “”

      Neither do I, I’m glad therefore that I only read it. :lol:

  9. Andrei says:
    December 31, 2011 at 14:54

    Enjoy your new year guys

    Next year is going to be a doozy – the omens are really really bad and there isn’t a leader of substance in power nor on the horizon.

    I think the baby boomers party is over

  10. KG says:
    December 31, 2011 at 16:35

    Big balls–and not a hi-viz vest in sight. :lol:
    http://youtu.be/kKRwqD0n_48

  11. oswald bastable says:
    December 31, 2011 at 17:44

    Had to repair a loose bike chain this afternoon. After five minutes of rummaging about in the semi-dark, I found the chain splitter. The wife said I should sort my tools a little better and I would find stuff.

    I replied that the last time I used that tool was 1988…

  12. KG says:
    December 31, 2011 at 18:10

    What’s even worse is when someone “tidies up” the workshop…….fortunately, Mrs Wabbit knows better. :smile:

  13. KG says:
    December 31, 2011 at 18:15

    :shock: Why? It’s all very logical as it is–block plane belongs on the same shelf as the torque wrench, seal picks with the epoxy glue etc….

  14. Kris K says:
    December 31, 2011 at 18:31

    Happy New Year, fellas – well it will be here in NZ in two and a half hours anyway. See you all next year.

  15. mara says:
    December 31, 2011 at 18:52

    Kris K. I wasn’t a fella last time I looked but will take the felicitation anyway. ;-)

    • KG says:
      December 31, 2011 at 19:02

      May you have a very fine 2012 ma’am. :smile:

    • Kris K says:
      January 1, 2012 at 10:03

      Most women I see as friends have the special distinction of my regarding them as “honorary blokes”. I also classify most regulars here at CR, both women readers and commenters, in this same category.

      Mind you, they have to be – most of us here call a spade a spade, don’t mince words, and refuse to buy into the whole feminist/Marxist/Islamist nomenclature.

      Never ever confuse me with a white-ribbon wearing, catwalk mincing, girls-can-do-anything, Islam appeasing metrosexual – that outfit just don’t work.

      Happy New Year, Mara ;)

  16. Brooding Log Cabin Nutter says:
    December 31, 2011 at 19:13

    A lot of Apple stuff – computers and Ipods both of which I’ve bought but subsequently trashed because they’re sh*t – was apparently designed by Jonathan Ive who looks like everyone else with a bald head. He also looks like a f*cking schoolboy and now I see they’ve given him a Knighthood! FFS; how much more excrement has to be thrown in the face of the imbecilic poms before the dumb f*cks catch on that not only are they being ripped off big time by their political elite, but laughed at big time by them behind closed doors for being such moronic fuckwits.

    Happy New Year Everybody! All the very best for 2012 and I really mean that, sincerely!

  17. KG says:
    December 31, 2011 at 19:31

    :mrgreen: And to you, BLCN.
    (and we love our Macs. No way would either of us ever go back to a Windows nightmare)

    • Brooding Log Cabin Nutter says:
      January 1, 2012 at 03:45

      So you’re a friggin’ Zombie too KG, in a Master/Slave relationship with big steaming jobbie? I thought better of you! :lol:

      • KG says:
        January 1, 2012 at 04:24

        Slave? I was a bloody slave to a windoze pc for too long.
        Now: no crashes, no hunting for drivers, no pissing around in the registry, no registration hassles, no antivirus, no antivirus updates. If I want a clean install it takes twenty minutes–just pop in the disc, choose either archive and install or a clean install, hit the button and go make a coffee.
        My only regret is I didn’t make the change sooner. So–what was wrong with your Mac/s?

        • Brooding Log Cabin Nutter says:
          January 1, 2012 at 05:18

          In a sentence: they’re not PC’s!

          My experience with computers goes back to the 1980’s and the Commodore 128 but I’m afraid I’m no geek. I know what you mean by crashing but that’s a bit of a fallacy by now and I’ve not had my computer crash in years – I’m now on Windows 7.

          For me the big difference is due to Gates having made the decision early on to let outsiders contribute as software designers which gives the PC a lot wider spectrum. With Apple the field is much narrower though perhaps OK for graphics, but the big problem with Apple for me is it’s relative complexity in trying to do anything and which is made unnecessarily so due to being captive to Jobs’ and his money grubbing ways and where he’s constantly trying to make a lousy few cents out of everything. His lap dogs don’t seem to appreciate that above all, that’s what Jobs, and Apple along with his DRM Copyright) ‘Associates’, is all about: marketing. It’s his little people like Ive who I go on about above, who deserve any praise for the design of the product.

          • KG says:
            January 1, 2012 at 08:27

            So–no specific complaints then?
            “but the big problem with Apple for me is it’s relative complexity in trying to do anything.” is a bit vague, and runs directly counter to the most often given reason people like their Macs.
            The hardest thing my beloved found to get used to when she bought an iMac was, to use her own words, “it can’t be that simple!
            But it was. :lol:

            • KG says:
              January 1, 2012 at 08:41

              The Mac Vs Windows thing interests me, if only for the level of hostility Macs seem to engender.
              The only add-on I’ve bought for the Mac is a tiny prog called Macaroni. Cost about $12, works in the background and gives no trouble whatsoever. (over the past four years.)
              And my experience with music CDs is a lot different to the PC. Just put it in to play and Mac offers to copy it to the music library, so I’m not sure what the bitch is about DRM?

              • Brooding Log Cabin Nutter says:
                January 1, 2012 at 09:37

                Mort’s started on a few specifics for you below and I believe it would be a bit of a waste of time to start wrangling over differences on here KG. I have quite a list and we’d never agree or manage to persuade the other to switch.
                But above this minutiae there is an interesting anthropological/sociological/mass hysteria thing going on and which both intrigues and repulses me. Why else would newspapers be constantly waffling on about the prospect of an Iphone5 or Ipad 3 or wharrever – and trying to generate some sort of excited expectation among their readership when after all, it’s not the second coming – nowhere near – and these gadgets are generally not much of an improvement of what went before them anyway. Yet the mugs line up even in these straightened times if only it seems, to worship at the alter of St Steve who’s sole aim as far as I can see, is to maximise Apple’s profits and his own bank account.
                I genuinely wonder when the next Jim Jones like character is going to emerge from the woodwork to lead St Steve’s gullible followers into the jungle where they’ll all drink “the juice” in order to be able to join St Steve on his celestial voyage into eternity.
                Hang on! That idea has lucrative possibilities, wonder if I could get away with it!

          • mort says:
            January 1, 2012 at 08:38

            It was that logic that I chose an Android ph with.I figured with prices being upto 90% lower than iphone’s, and an open access user platform then it would only be a matter of time before any application that iPhone has will become available on Android.
            With the advent of the google wallet (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Wallet for more complete info) Android Phones will eclipse apple. The Google system will not skim users for utilising the system, unlike Apple which has an inherent skim in everything they do (Google plan to pay for the system with push advertising… which I think could be a bit scary, in that you could be tracked electronically and have shops/ vending machines txt you when you are close by).
            But overall I think despite bing behind Apple in number of apps and actual downloads, Android are going to catch up and move beyond iPhone/iPad formats.

            • KG says:
              January 1, 2012 at 09:06

              The bottom line there, Mort is that I neither like nor trust Google one millimetre, and their record speaks for itself. No bastard is going to track me, no matter how innocuous that may be sold as initially. (one reason I use Ixquick instead of Google for searches, apart from less bias in Ixquick results)
              And a ‘phone for me is just that–a phone, for making calls, not a gadget which does everything but beat eggs. The call gets made and the phone gets turned off. People seem perfectly happy to give away their privacy on the slightest pretext and I suspect privacy is now dead as a value. One has only to see the look of stunned incomprehension on people’s faces when they’re told “sorry, that’s private”. :evil:

              • The Gantt Guy says:
                January 1, 2012 at 10:01

                On the google thing, I see they’ve ‘enhanced’ their security by offering an option to add a mobile phone number to your account. If you choose to decline their offer you get those ‘Are you really, really, really sure?’ messages. Bastards!

              • KG says:
                January 1, 2012 at 10:02

                Mort’s specifics are irrelevant to me, BLCN–I’m concerned only with the difference between running a Mac and a Windows PC.
                And I’m neither a mug nor a fanatic.

  18. Robertvdl says:
    January 1, 2012 at 00:46

    The walnut bread goes into the oven.

    8:15 hours to go

  19. KG says:
    January 1, 2012 at 04:25

    Walnut bread? With walnuts in it or on top of it?
    I have a history of stuffing up bread making….. :roll:

  20. The Gantt Guy says:
    January 1, 2012 at 07:56

    Happy New Year, friends, and best wishes for 2012.

    For our friends in the New World, this is perhaps the most important year of the past 50. You have an opportunity to quite literally save the Western world, and I wish you well in your quest. To inspire you, I’d like to refer you to this essay which answers the question “What would Washington have said to Obama?” An excerpt:

    “In spite of this accumulation of political felonies, you have had the temerity, the astonishing rind, to posit an intellectual and spiritual kinship with several of your distinguished predecessors. I note, with considerable relief, that you have not as yet presumed to impute to me the same act of bastardy with which you have sought to malign the honor of these illustrious gentlemen. I caution you never to do so, for, in the event, I would bargain with Almighty God that I should pass an hundred years in purgatory in exchange for the grace of an hour in which to call upon you, to offer the choice of sword or pistol.”

  21. KG says:
    January 1, 2012 at 09:23

    (the great Paco was once the cleverest, funniest of all Tim Blair’s commenters. It’s good to catch up with him again.)

  22. KG says:
    January 1, 2012 at 10:06

    Under ‘Breaking News’ in this morning’s News.com:
    ‘Kim Kardashian vows to ‘be more simple in 2012’ ‘
    She’s going to have the other brain cell removed? Along with her fans and followers of this tripe, I assume.

  23. WAKE UP says:
    January 1, 2012 at 15:42

    I’d like to say”who is Kim Kardashian?”, but unfortunately I know who she is. That’s the f***ing media (and the brainless public) for you.

  24. Robertvdl says:
    January 1, 2012 at 21:12

    Just woke up.

    A very Happy New Year amigos, and best wishes from Barcelona for what is coming.
    The Walnut bread was With walnuts in it and on top of it. The friends liked it very much.
    I see you have already been very busy KG, a very good way to start this new year.

    just 364 days and 12 hours to go for 2013

    • KG says:
      January 3, 2012 at 08:14

      Hell yes! The Libz (what’s left of ’em) will be up in arms over this, too. And so will Key, looking for a quick fix to cover up the Nat’s economic mis-management.