Operation Fortitude F***ed Up Farce Friday

Fiona Uncategorized

The press release, then the Twitter storm.

(Image Credit: Police will have ‘particular focus on people travelling to, from and around the CBD’. Photograph: Julian Smith/AAP)

From Formidable Fortitude to Farcical Force

(Image Credit: About 200 people protesting against the Australian Border Force operation block the intersection of Flinders Street and Swanston Street in Melbourne on Friday. Photograph: Melissa Davey for the Guardian)

has me wondering how soon it will be before a few “leaders” – you know, the ones whose family names start with a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a, *duh1*, and quis quaed – become

(Image Credit: Okokchina )

Most annoying – moi was really looking forward to being dragged into the paddy wagon dressed something like this:

(Image Credit: Styloss)

(and I would, too.)

What’s (and who’s) next for this flock of imbeciles?

(Image Credit: Pinterest)

505 thoughts on “Operation Fortitude F***ed Up Farce Friday”

  1. The Hitler/Downfall video thing just keeps on going. This time it’s all about Operation Fortitude. I suspect it’s very close to the truth, just substitute Credlin for Hitler and you have it exactly.

  2. fiona
    Is it safe to go out on the streets of Melbourne yet? Or do you still have to wear ear protection because of the laughter?

  5. What an excellent “Der Untergang” . Thought I’d use the German title what with the spiffy ABF uniforms and all.

  6. The dark-haired guy with his back against the wall looks spookily like Scrott Morriscum’s pet, Lieut. General Angus Campbell.

  7. A special train for Chinese tourists has been launched at a mountain resort in Switzerland, following tensions over cultural differences.

    Swiss newspaper Blick reports that some tourists visiting Mount Rigi in the Swiss Alps have become incensed with Chinese tourists crowding the corridors while taking pictures from the train.

    There are also reports of rudeness in packed carriages, and some even say they’ve seen tourists spit on the floor.

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/swiss-resort-launches-special-train-for-chinese-tourists-due-to-cultural-differences-10478145.html

  12. A glass of white, a pain killer for my aches. Meoldema enjoying the Crows beating the hell out of West Coast. Sun shining, Abbott imploding, a SA Chapter Knees Up in the planning.

    Ah, life is good.

  13. The Champagne Blonde hair dye I just put in looks a bit ‘lavender’ to me. I wonder what it will look like when it dries?

    Oh well, what is life without risk. eh?

  15. The expression is said to have originated from poker, in which a marker or counter (e.g., a knife with a buckhorn handle during the American Frontier era) was used to indicate the person whose turn it was to deal. If the player did not wish to deal he could pass the responsibility by passing the “buck”, as the counter came to be called, to the next player. Another less common but arguably less fanciful attribution is to the French expression “Bouc émissaire” meaning scapegoat, whereby passing the “bouc” is equivalent to passing the blame or onus. The terms “bouc émissaire” and scapegoat both originate from an Old Testament (Lev. 16:6-10) reference to an animal that was ritually made to carry the burden of sins, after which the “buck” was sent or “passed” into the wilderness to expiate them.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_passing

    I like the French origin.

  20. Been asleep for the last hour or so…still got the last vestige of that lousy flu hanging on!…Crikey what a bastard!…I reckon it was “manufactured” in a laboratory somewhere….you know, as a kind of “testing ground” for “species specific” virus’s to wipe out certain types of people…like redheads..or..or people with long earlobes..or Labor voters…
    Go figure…; there’s gonna be 9 billion people on this “lollypop ball” in the next couple of decades…they..THEY gotta thin us out a tad..and they are not gonna use nuclear weapons..: too much infrastructure damage…eh, eh…so it’s got to be biological..a little twist of the gene here, a little added strength of the virus there…nudge, nudge…call it “Avian flu”…or “Sars”…or perhaps…perhaps; “Merv” or whatever…try it out here , test it out there…refine , refine…eh? ..eh?…don’t you worry ’bout that!

    Say ??…talk about not worrying about that!…when are you mob of drongos going to go read , comment or post something up on “The Lounge Bar” page…What’s the point of putting a pencil in those greasy little fingers all those years ago and teaching you the three R’s if’n you don’t use it!?

    Go on!!…git over there and write like you mean it!

    Kirsdarke!!…you musta wrote some half decent papers to get those results at the old Alma Mater…pit a couple up and gis a look at them…puffy..you said you were gonna write something…get a move on!..and YOU; Leone..how about an extended version of those signature posts of yours to get us really hopping mad!?

    Fiona..you can just put up last week’s shopping list…I’m sure it will be full of solid sense and witty one liners just as it is!….anyway..gotta go for my afternoon Chamomile tea..(it relaxes the throat thingos).

  25. Jaycee,
    It is just your immune system being worn down by the Abbott infection. The only ‘cure’ is a mass vaccination achieved by everyone putting L/NP last on their voting slips for the next twenty years.

  26. jaycee

    I just don’t have anything to say that will make anyone hopping mad right now. I’m too busy laughing at Border Farce.

  33. gigi

    The first time I saw an spiny ant eater disappear into a gravel earth bank on the side of a dirt road I was amazed at how fast they could dig.

  35. Does the Sprout’s “I didn’t read it” mean that he’ll have to recuse himself?

  38. gigi

    That gravel earth sounds more like quick sand …

    Granite and clay – not east going.

  42. ” how about we all write an animal story”…Oh well…out comes the old Autobiography!

  43. O,O,OH….The OH. has got the bird in the baking dish and I notice out the corner of my little eye she’s cutting open the pack of “Kanmantoo bacon”…O,Oh!..roast chook tonight with all the trimmings…

  48. Another day, another government debacle, another stuff-up by Duhton. And Scrott.

    Another $55 million down the drain.

    Plan to resettle refugees in Cambodia collapses

    Australia’s $55 million operation to resettle hundreds of refugees from the tiny Pacific island of Nauru to Cambodia appears to have collapsed in a diplomatic embarrassment for the Abbott Government.
    A senior Cambodian official says the impoverished nation has no plans to receive any more than four refugees who arrived in Phnom Penh in June, and indicated it did not want any.
    “We don’t have any plans to import more refugees from Nauru to Cambodia,” Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak told the Cambodia Daily.

    “I think the less we receive the better,” he said

    http://www.theage.com.au/world/plan-to-resettle-refugees-in-cambodia-collapses-20150830-gjavdv.html

  50. And to think GMH. asked for a $50 mill loan to keep it’s Aust’ operations going and save tens of thousands of jobs.

Comments are closed.