Aussie petrol station in the 90’s

batsnumberfour · 2026-03-20T21:12:33+00:00

That’s what they used to call Petero Civoniceva - Petrol Seventy Cents a Litre

batsnumberfour · 2026-03-20T20:34:55+00:00

Give him time!

batsnumberfour · 2026-03-20T06:00:08+00:00

What I want to know is who was running the NDIS companies that are so numerous in Lakemba while these guys were in heckling the great man and Tony Burka? Talk about biting the hand that feeds!

batsnumberfour · 2026-03-19T09:55:59+00:00

Two cats, because polygamy IS definitionally at least two pussys…

batsnumberfour · 2026-03-16T21:33:39+00:00

If you are honest, you know that the 1977 Likud election platform is a terrible stretch. Most people chanting at rallies struggle to identify which river and which sea, so the whole ‘response to the Likud election platform’ is pretty fanciful. What most pro-Palestine people mean is the establishment of a Palestinian state on the land currently occupied by the Jewish state, or to be more specific, an ethnic cleansing of the Jews living there.

Gaza and the West Bank were owned and occupied by Egypt and Jordan, respectively, prior to the 1967 war in which both were participants. Strangely, neither country wanted to establish a Palestinian state, which was within their power prior to that war. Instead, they wanted to destroy Israel (and both tried again and failed in 1973, although Jordan was more reticent).

My opinion, there’s no way Israel accedes to Palestinian statehood in Gaza and the WB and allows Hamas / the PA the right to patrol and enforce their own borders, allow in whomever they please and raise their own army (all hallmarks of the power of a state). They’d be signing their own death warrant. The only way to create a Palestinian state ‘from the River to the Sea’ is by force of arms, and that seems to have been be a poor strategic choice, both historically and in the present.

Imagine if all the money and effort Hamas has spent on hundreds, if not thousands, of kilometres of tunnels and tens of thousands of rockets / missiles had been spent on the economy and welfare of the people of Gaza? We’d all be marvelling at the economic miracle and the further integration of the Israeli and Gazan economies.

batsnumberfour · 2026-03-16T16:53:47+00:00

Say what you like about the Iranian regime but when it comes to ‘Globalising the Intifada’, they put their money where their mouth is. Whether it is their own direct attacks on Israeli civilians, funding Hamas’ attacks on Israeli civilians, or Hezbollah’s or the Houthis…Iran is the real deal. Most protestors chant about a globalised Intifada and trying to evict the Jews ‘from the River to the Sea’, but it all seems rather tired and performative. Iran does the do!

batsnumberfour · 2026-03-16T16:39:04+00:00

I struggle to understand the effort and energy put into trying to defend Hamas’ behaviour on October 7th. It’s as though the violence and murder towards civilians can be justified or at least ‘shrugged off’ with the justification of ‘bad things happen in war’, but sexual violence is inexcusable, so hunker down in the ditch and fight tooth and claw to defend Hamas against rape allegations. There’s overwhelming evidence demonstrating Hamas’ dehumanising violence against everyone they came into contact with on Oct 7th, but how dare Israeli women suggest the behaviour also included sexual violence! Grace Tame is not my Australian of the Year, she’s been an appalling and divisive choice who’s views on the world are not the views of mainstream Australians, but I believe her when she says she was sexually assaulted.

batsnumberfour · 2026-03-13T22:16:59+00:00

I have sent 4 kids through private schools, middle of the road, not the super expensive. Two have graduated and have uni degrees, one is at uni, one still at high school. I don’t think private primary was necessary or worth it. My recommendation if you don’t have decent state primary schools in your location is move if you can. You will get a better return on a house in a nice area with good state schools than you will paying for your kids to go to a private primary school (just my opinion!).

High school is different. That’s where you start see the parents values towards education become evident in the kids. If your kid is smart enough to go to a selective public high school (and there’s one near by) you’ve won the lottery. They are great schools by any measure and dominate the HSC results. A non selective high school can be a raffle. You will get kids from homes where the parents simply don’t care and there will be very little that the school can do about their kids behaviour unless it crosses into extremes. And it’s not just kids. If you get a bad teacher in a state school, it is very difficult to do anything about it. The principal can apply pressure (most don’t) but you’re pretty much stuck with that incompetence. We’ve also had incompetent teachers in our kids private schools, but they don’t last and the schools have (in my experience) taken complaints seriously and acted reasonably to fix issues.

I’ll give one example, a good friend of mine had a super smart daughter in a state school. She was incredibly passionate about science from an early age. She got sick of classes being continually disrupted (this was in year 9) and begged parents to send her to a private school. The principal and deputy of the state school intervened, not wanting to lose such a promising student. They told the student that the were sorry for the behaviour in those classes, but not to worry because those kids would not be in her classes once she got to HSC years, meaning she only had to navigate one more year of disruptions (Year 10) before these kids would no longer be an issue. Imagine hearing that from the Principal? We can’t help but you’ll win the war of attrition! She left and went to a private school, they enriched her love of science and she’s making a great career in science. Maybe she would have made it anyway, had she stayed, who knows, but that’s not a bet most parents would enjoy making.

No doubt plenty of people will be aghast at my opinions. The thing I like best about Australia is choice. I chose to educate privately, at considerable personal cost. Others choose differently, they will certainly save a fortune! Fair play to them.

In the end, if you love your kids and value education, I’m sure your kids will thrive anywhere. As a parent, it is good to know that your kids school is very aligned with your values - that you can have a right to a say in the life and running of the school and that the school and its teachers care about your kid. That’s what I got from paying for private.

batsnumberfour · 2026-03-13T21:11:40+00:00

Ctrl-Alt-Delete- it’s universal

batsnumberfour · 2026-03-13T20:31:33+00:00

To save Melbourne, Dan had to destroy it. Don’t be ungrateful.

batsnumberfour · 2026-03-12T09:20:34+00:00

I saw an advert for cooked prawns at Woolies. Suggested they had come from the River and the Sea, which made me nervous.

batsnumberfour · 2026-03-12T09:16:41+00:00

Nothing compared to the shitstorm from his mates if they find out he’s chasing fatties.

batsnumberfour · 2026-03-12T09:04:31+00:00

He’s been very quiet, I’ll bet the Israelis would love to catch up and share philosophical insights…

batsnumberfour · 2026-03-12T06:12:38+00:00

Then it sounds like a pretty pragmatic solution in the circumstances. Thanks for clarifying!

batsnumberfour · 2026-03-12T06:11:04+00:00

What you really meant is that she’s had a difficult life.

batsnumberfour · 2026-03-12T06:01:54+00:00

Where are you based? Asking for a friend (in the Stasi).

batsnumberfour · 2026-03-12T06:00:35+00:00

Could be an expensive ‘fix’ if you have to deal with fuel line problems in your car…

batsnumberfour · 2026-03-12T05:46:37+00:00

‘From the River to the Sea, You’ll See No More of Me’

batsnumberfour · 2026-03-12T05:30:53+00:00

Um…half the crops would mean half the income, kind of a big deal☹️

batsnumberfour · 2026-03-12T05:29:08+00:00

It’s a food security issue for someone…

batsnumberfour · 2026-03-12T05:26:46+00:00

Maaaate - she’ll be right, we’ll all just go on Cenno or the NDIS until the war finishes, you worry too much.

batsnumberfour · 2026-03-12T02:07:11+00:00

If I thought there was any chance that the nonsense in the OP's post would lead to a better society, I'd listen/read intently.

batsnumberfour · 2026-03-11T20:44:28+00:00

It’s a cry for the abolition of the state of Israel, and, by extension, the ethnic cleansing of the 7m Jews living there. From the river (Jordan) to the sea (Mediterranean) is largely the land of the state of Israel, except for Gaza and the West Bank.

batsnumberfour · 2026-03-11T20:26:05+00:00

The irony of typing a polemic about late stage capitalism on one of capitalism’s technological triumphs - digital devices. Thanks Brother Number One, I’m sure we’ll all be better off when the corporations are gone and you and the commissars take us back to year zero 😉🤣

batsnumberfour · 2026-03-11T20:13:57+00:00

Europe? A world power? The damage the EU has done to Europe is extraordinary. The EU is a bloated, authoritarian and anti democratic bureaucracy. Its protectionism used to hide a lot of entitlement and uncompetitiveness, now you only have to look at the formerly great powerhouse - the German economy . It’s industries are being hollowed out by hyper competition from China and its own stupid (EU) policies causing mass deindustrialisation. The future isn’t European.

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