Boonta Vista - UNLOCKED BONUS EPISODE: The Arc Of Britishness

Episode Date: June 7, 2020

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Welcome to Quintavista, It's a bonus episode. That's right. I am Theo and I'm here on a triple date. How wonderful. Except none of our partners have shown up. It's just us three on a gondola going down the Love Canal. I am, even though it's not actually a date now, that's all kind of, you know, blown over. I'm still like physically nervous about it. But that's probably fine. I am of course here with Andrew, who is bothering the gondola, what do you call the pilot of a gondola? The driver? The driver, to no end with his incredible and accurate French accent.

How are you, Andrew? Oh, I am very good. I love to be on the gondola. Which as we all know is very French. Very French, that's right, I believe. And the driver is not making any eye contact with us whatsoever. I'm clearly not happy about the situation. And I'm of course...

I'm going to try talking more French, but louder and slower. I'm also here with Ben, who is already totally nude. Well, you know, the hard work you do now is hard work you don't have to do later. And for me, getting out of this skin-tight denim double-breasted suit that I was wearing... Just the nicest thing you own. It was going to be a lot of effort to take it off. So I greased myself up. I... In this order, I graced myself up. I up. I up. I take it off. So I greased myself up. I, in this order, I graced myself up, I excused myself to go to the bathroom.

I removed the suit, I folded the suit, I hid it behind the reservoir tag of the toilet like it's the gun from the godfather. And then I came back out fully nude and pretended that nothing changed. Yeah. Be the change you want to see in the world. Mmm. A nude man on a gondola. More nude men on gondolas.

Well, and if you were hoping for nudity, then also you have to lead by example, you know. That's so true. Yeah. Theo, have you ever seen Brisbane's famous nude guy? Yeah, I have met you. He's been over to your house, Ben. Hey, oh, whoa. No, I have, I've not met the very ominous sounding nude guy. So you, I mean, you might be familiar with his work from... Some nude photos I've seen. No, he was featured quite prominently in the... So you, I mean you might be familiar with his work from... Some nude photos I've seen. No, he was featured quite prominently in the music video to the Violent Soho Song. It wasn't covered in Croam. It was the single off the same album that was released before

covering Crope. It was one of their songs where it's just a nude man on a bicycle riding around the city of Brisbane handing out flyers for some sort of nude bike ride. And then this man is a real-life habitual nudist who lives in Brisbane who would just very frequently he would be at, you know, like small local gigs entirely nude. And that was his whole thing. Occasionally you'd see him clothed. Sometimes you'd see him nude. So I'm just going to go on type into my browser, nude guy. Okay, see if... I've done this thousands of times. Famous, famous nude guy. Celebrity, Brisbane famous nude guy. Celebrity, Brisbane, nude man. You're going to wind up with lots of New York's naked cowboy, who of course is not actually naked.

He's a coward. Wait, what's the naked cowboy? Naked cowboy is the guy in the underpants in the cowboy hat who plays his guitar in like Times Square. Oh, of course. And then there was a whole, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, thue, thue, thue, thuuse, thus, thus, thus, thus, thus, thus, thus, thus, thus, thus, thus, thi, thi, thi, thi his guitar in like Times Square. Oh, of course. And then there was a whole, there was like a whole lawsuit from a naked lady cowboy who was like, that's my name. Oh no, the naked cowboy is a Trump supporter. Hotly contested IP to be the naked cowboy.

Did you get any hits on that theory? Did you find anything about the nude man? I've not looked yet. Sorry, I'm actually just scrolling through that I'm each I today game list. Sure. That's just switch tabs. Well that's I mean how much longer is left on that? Is that worth saying that people should do? There's still like nine days or something? Yeah, you should, uh, nine days left to this? You should point your browser at their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their th. th. th. th. their their th. th. I' th. I've th. I've th. I' th. I' th. I' th. I' th. I' their their th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I'. I've th. th. thi. thi. th? Yeah, you should, nine days left to this, you should point your browser at the URL itch.io, and if you are some sort of games person, make a contribution anything from five dollars US upwards and get approximately a million games. They listed as 742 items from 564 creators. There's all sorts of good games on there. I checked none of the money goes to Marbon. Oh thank fuck. Wait did he did he put chat with your dad simulator in there? I haven't seen it in there.

Well if he hasn't, friend of the show Marvin is cancelled. And if he has, well done to him. Check that out if you can. Lots of games. Lancer, the RPG where you're a some sort of giant mech pilot. Night of the Woods, which I believe is very good, but I have not played. Lots of people told me that it's good. It is very good. Tonight we riot is in there. Lots of good stuff. Have it that. So this is a, it's from 2010, the Times Square Cowboy, whose real name is Robert Burke, is known for strumming his guitar wearing only brie and a cowboy hat. He has sent a cease and desist letter to Sandy Kane who wears a red, white and blue cowboy hat and matching bikini, the New York Post reports. Mr. Burke 38. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. t. t. tol. tol. tol. tol. tole. tole. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. t New York Post reports. Mr. Vogt 38. Naked. I know. Fucking proods.

American prudes. He said that if Miss Kane was going to make money by posing for photos, he wants her to sign a, quote, naked cowboy franchise agreement. Wow. And those can be brutal. Most, now this is a baffling sentence here, most of his licensed franchisees are required to pay a $5,000 a year or $500 a month fee and go through a screening process. Most of his licensed franchisees implying that there is more than one.

Yeah, that's certainly to me, to have the concept of a most existing, there's a minimum of three. Yeah. Which seems like a lot. You have to have more than half year people paying their fee. Mr. Burke previously made a splash after auditioning unsuccessfully for both American Idol and Australian Idol. Oh no! Came all the way over here to get told to fuck off.

That's one of the most profoundly desperate things I've ever heard. Imagine the sadness of Australian Idol's really like, that's the bottom of the barrel. Oh yeah. If you scraped any further than that, you're punching through the fabric of reality. There is no lower point. So, you know, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's th, th. That's th. That's th. That's th. thi, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the thooooo-a-upo-upo-upo-hea, th. That's th. you're punching through the fabric of reality. There is no lower point. So you know, but we're hearing he's a Trump supporter, so fuck that guy. Yeah, naked cowboy, you are cancelled.

Damn, get him. I'll tell you who's not canceled. I mean, I'm gonna tell you, that was actually in was actually in the start and sentence but if you want to guess you're welcome to Harry Potter author J. K Rowling now I'm just going to go to the internet you got a very slowly type in a hundred-peck style j j dot dot dot rowing canceled canceled canceled question what have you found? Oh? Oh? Dot. Dot. Rowling. Cancelled. Question-author. What have you found? Oh.

Oh, I see. Oh, no. Is she an enormous turf? Yeah, things aren't going well, and it looks like she will be marrying Graham Linne. Oh, at least they'll both make each other happy. They'll be like sitting back to back at their own respective computer, just railing against trans people all day, every day, and then occasionally look at each other and saying, we're doing the right thing as their relatives contact them to say you're no longer welcome at Christmas.

The Ark of Britishness is long, but it bends towards Turfton. It's horrible. Why does this keep happening? That's right folks. We're going to put J.K. Rowling on a bus and send her the fuck out of town. But unfortunately, there's a lot of buses coming into town? You know what, I'm just going to say, I'm really mad that you hijacked my quite competent segue for a dazzlingly better segue. Oh, okay, well, that's good. Hey, there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there's th. th. th. tho-a. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the th. thin. thin. thin. thin. thin. thin. thin. thee the the the the the the the the the the the the thin good. Hey, there's all these buses pulling in town. Somebody spray-painted a big A with a circle around it on the side, and it's super scary. Oh, boy.

Yes, that's right, folks. What, with all the protests going on in the states, we have seen the return of the antifers Super Soldier narrative. It's so good. The covert army of protesters. Like, I get that, you know, the people are whipped up into a state of hysteria and madness and paranoia, and they only get their news from like Q Facebook groups. But just this like insane belief that thousands of well-funded super

riders are descending on like some town in Indiana with a population of 70. Like, ah, they're going to destroy our, you know, the giant bucket. Whatever it is that we have. You laugh, but what if they came through here and said that they were going to destroy the big banana? We're going to straighten out the big banana. That'll fuck everyone up. We're going to firebomb that tall lawnmower that sort of had the Australia zoo exit. That is the laziest of all the big things because all of the height is in the handle which is just some pipes. It's so bad. It's a 10 10 10 10 the th th. Te th. Tere th. Tere th. T's th. T's th. T's th. T's th. T's th. T's tho tho tho tho they're going tho tho thoen thoen thoen thea thoeateaten theaten theaten thoe, thoe, thoea thoing out thoing out tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho th. th. th. th. th. We th. th. We're th. We're th. We're th. We're th. T's they's they're going they're going thi they're going the the the the the the the the the the the the the thee the theee thean. thean which is just some pipes. It's so bad. It's a 10 meter tall lawn mower.

They're going to come through town and shear the big marino. Oh no! They're sad to say that they have desexed the big marina. Oh, there's just so many of them. So many big things they could come through and fuck with. They've the big the big the big the big the big the big the big the big. It's the big. It's the big. It's the big. the big. the big. the big. the big. It's. the big. th. th. th. th. th. thoe. thoeaugh. thoe. tho. It's tho. tho. tho. thea'a'a'a'a'a'a'a' tho. thoes. thoes. Ta'er. It's tho. It's tho. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's the the the the the. It's ta. It's toddeea. It's a tooea. It's a tooea. It's a tooea. It's a today. It's a tooea. It's things they could come through and fuck with. They've grilled the big pineapple. They've cracked the big walnut. Oh wait, no, it's a big academia. They've shocked the big clam. They've, in the greatest insult of all, they have French fried the big potato. Yeah, it's wonderful. It kind of, I think, um, the narrative that had been happening through the first several days of the mass protests in America was all of the police chiefs of all of these different

cities saying, oh no, it's not our citizens who are rioting. They're all being very well behaved and in fact it is outside agitators. Tens of thousands of people being bust in. Yeah, but once it got to the point where there were protests in all 50 states and like over 140 cities, it's like, is this like a round-robin thing? It's sort of like an antifer exchange program. Yeah. Yeah. Everybody do-see-dow one city to the left and throw a rock at that cop. Yeah, just the idea that like somehow there was simultaneously millions of people in the streets, but also none of them were like from your town is extremely funny.

But this stuff of course is the, it's the fever dream. It's the fever dream of this kind of thing. So this is from the Peninsula Daily News. Family harassed in Forks after being accused of being members of Antifa. The Forks Chamber of Commerce issued a statement Friday decrying the harassment of a Spokane family accused of being members of Antifa while near Squim, a gun store owner said he had armed guards because of a threat he received after making comments that Antifah was coming to the North Olympic Peninsula.

Now Ben has pointed out in the notes that this town has actually pronounced squim. Yes, I didn't want you to embarrass yourself by saying it in the way that it looks, which seems to make a lot more sense, but you know. Like sequin with an M on the end. It is exactly like that. No, it's squim like a grub. Uh, finding the dirt. Seth Larson, owner of Fred's Guns 2.0. I'll be honest with you.

The original Fred's Guds, shit. That 2.0 is much needed. We were getting somewhere with the 1.7 release, but really it's taken a lot of iterations of Fred's Guns to get to the wonderful product that we've realized today. Seth Larson, owner of Fred's Guns 2.0, and Karls Borg guns to get to the wonderful product that we've realized today. Seth Larson, owner of Fred's Guns 2.0 and Karlsborg had urged people to carry guns to a protest organized in Squim to protect squim businesses from Antifa, a political protest movement comprising autonomous groups in militant opposition to fascism. It's remarkable that they actually wrote it like that. That they said, this is people who are in militant opposition to fascism.

And this guy definitely wants to stop it. He said he had heard Antifa was busing in protesters. He later apologized for what he called a knee-jerk reaction, saying the protest was peaceful. Later that day in Forks, a multi-racial family of four from Spokane was followed by at least four vehicles. Some with people with guns, they told deputies, as they left Forks Outfitters in a full-sized school bus. The family was trapped when they tried to leave their campsite after trees were felled to block the road. Clallham County Sheriff's Deputy said, they were able to leave after four high school students cut the trees with chainsaws,

said Sergeant Ed Anderson in a press release issued late Thursday. How fucking cool is that? A couple of teens were like, oh shit, got their fucking chains out. And just fucking guys get out of here? Yeah. The kids are all right. Just what is wrong with people? Honestly. We saw a bus with some people on it.

There it is, the super soldiers coming in strong. This small family of people. This is the army of super riders that are going to destroy our beautiful tiny town that is now mostly famous for some very, very bad young adult fiction. There really is like a whole thing in the states of just people being convinced that there is this like mammoth underground system of coordinated agitators and communists and anarchists and all that sort of stuff, which is like, you know, I know I'm not the first person to point out. It's remarkable to be able to like simultaneously hold in your mind that like basically, you know,

pretty much all branches of your government from the president down through lots of different levels to local are like all dominated by Republicans and right-wing freaks and all that sort of stuff but also that there's like this massive network of people who are desperate to destroy your country you know. Yeah it's cool to be able to hold those both in your brain at the same time. And I mean, because they both just ease their worldview in that you get to have, you get to be boiored by the belief that, like, your opinion to the normal ones, the other people are being paid to have them or there's some external interest forcing them, but also that you will ultimately triumph because the people putting that forward are weak and useless or whatever.

So you just, it's nice. Having weird contradictory beliefs, something I would 100% recommend to just make your reality feel nice. Try it, try it anytime. Just to smooth it out the edges, smooth out that brain. Lizy Andrus, Executive Director of the Forks Chamber of Commerce said the harassment was, quote, an isolated incident, and yeah, isolated out of the back road somewhere. An isolated incident and does not represent the people of Forks.

We are shocked and saddened by the encounter the family experienced on Wednesday. We have full confidence in that law enforcement community to investigate this matter and to investigate themselves probably. All I welcome in Forks and it brings tears to think the family from Spokane were treated badly by certain citizens of Forks. As Chamber E.D., I hope to have the opportunity to apologize personally to the family and invite them back to have the experience they should have had. I don't think they want tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho their the experience they should have had. I don't think they want to come back. Do you think that there's enough of a drawcard in squim for them to be like, fuck? Yeah, no, we did have that run in where they blocked off the road

because they thought we were Antifa super soldiers, which was like a absolute nightmare. But I still want to get back and see the big acorn they got down there. So I'll probably come back at some point. Um, I think we have a little bit of a case of this in Australia, but no, like seemingly no nowhere near as dire as in America, where there are just whole swaths of people who seem to think that you can just kind of, say this magical spell, you can do this incantation by which something horrible happens that is a direct representation of the people in your community and obviously, you know, the culture of the place how they feel about outsiders people of color and all that sort of thing and you can have a very very direct and clear example of

that but one need only speak the words this is not us and then it's fine you merely have to say hey, that thing that happened that people who lived here did willingly and of their own accord, that's not what the people who live here are about. And also we looked into it and it's fine. It's fine. The police investigated it and then they investigated themselves and it was good. It's all sweet. But yes, I do love... But yes, I do love Like it seems to be a whole thing with like, you know, centrist's and everything in America as well. You see, you know, the, the, like the rampant racism on display through all levels of government and the police and the military and you see, you know,

putting children in cages and refrigerating them on the border and all that sort of thing and you go, hey, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, th, thin, like, like, thin, thin, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, th and th and th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thin, th, th, thin, th, thin, thin, th, thin, thin, thin, thin, th, putting children in cages and refrigerating them on the border and all that sort of thing, and you go, hey, this isn't us, we are better than this. It's like, cool? Have you ever looked at anything before? Do you think that if you just say, oh, no, that's not us, that's somebody else. Must have been somebody else. 70 miles east of Forks, Larson said on his Facebook page that he had received threats to burn his shop and against his family and that armed people had guarded his shop and home Wednesday night.

I can't thank people enough for keeping my family safe, he said, I love all the patriots that show up. He posted written threats he said he had received including one apparently in Arabic. What do you reckon was going on there? It's Antifer X ISIS 2020. George Soros accidentally forgot to change his like PayPal thing from ISIS to Antifa. Whoops. Sl slip through the cracks there. In Forks, deputies were dispatched at about 6.39 p.m. Wednesday to the Sitkin-Soul Dock Road, which is known locally as the A-Road. In Forks, following request for assistance from four stranded campers, he said. The campuses were stranded after someone had felled elder trees across the roadway preventing their exit from the area. Family, a husband and wife with their 16-year-old daughter and the

husband's mother were driving a full-size school bus and prepared to camp off a logging road. The family had shopped for camping supplies at Forks Outfitters and were confronted by seven or eight car loads of people in the grocery store parking lot, Anderson said. The people in the parking lot repeatedly asked them if they were anti-for protesters. Good God. The family told the people they weren't associated with any such group and were just camping, the press release said. I feel like if the people that get out of the bus are a middle-aged couple, a teenage girl and an old lady, like, that would not be a hard explanation to make. We're not crack riot commandos. Well, I mean, you don't have to be when you've got the antifer exoskeletons.

Oh, that's true. The super serum. Yeah. Did we see the thing where the 75 year old guy that got knocked to the ground by the cops? The cops said in part of their reply. They, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thithat got knocked to the ground by the cops. The cops said in part of their reply they were like, oh this guy's like a ringleader and major agitator. Oh yeah, I saw that. This extremely old man. Direct threat to democracy and freedom and he must be put down. Like, these people are living in a fantasy world. It is remarkable.

The family had to drive their bus around vehicles in the parking lot in order to get back on the Highway 101. The family told deputies at least four vehicles followed them as they drove northbound out of forks. They said that two of the vehicles had people in them carrying what appeared to be semi-automatic rifles. They drove their bus up the A-road and onto the Longing Spur Road where they pitched a tent to camp for the night, they told deputies, but then heard gunshots in the distance and power sores down the road from where they were camping. Jesus Christ, that's some fucking fright shit. Yep, absolute. Texas chainsaw massacre areas. So understandably, they're packed up to leave. They found that someone had cut down trees across the spur road. Four Forks High School students contacted deputies as they drove up the air road towards campers.

The students used their chainsaw to clear the roadway for the family. Deputies escorted the family to the Forks Sheriff Detachment for interviews. Soon after they left left their their their their their their they they they they they they left they left they left they left their they left they left their they left they left their their they their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their they packed they packed they packed they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they their they they they their their their their their their the family to the Forks sheriff's detachment for interviews. Soon after they left their bus broke down, no! Oh God, that's a fucking nightmare. Also a horror movie thing to be like, and we're finally getting out of here. Edgard just sputters out. Uh, people are out of their minds, I think. Yes. Absolutely. I've been to Forks because I'm, you know, big

Twilight Head. There's nothing there. Like, I just don't understand what they think people are aiming to do. Like, it's a lovely enough place. It's weird because it is genuine, like, it's a real town, you know, where real people live, living their lives, doing stuff, but also because the massive influx of tourism they got from Twilight, they really lent into it. So this otherwise, just perfectly normal Pacific Northwest Town, a bunch of logging shit around and whatever, just has these horrible signs up being like you're in vampire territory now. Come and see the big sparkly vampire. I must be very embarrassing if you've lived there before that movie and those books you'd just be like, please stop I'm a grown man don't make me pretend to be in a vampire town.

You're in vampire country. Hey here's another story from NBC. In Klamath Falls, Oregon, victory declared over Antifa which never showed up. Great. About 200 protesters came to Sugarman's Corner, the local hot spot in downtown Klamath Falls, Oregon last Sunday to protest the killing of George Floyd. That was a small gathering they had company. Just across the street, hundreds of their their their their their toa. the the the the the the the their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their to to to to to to to to to to to to to their to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their to protest the killing of George Floyd. That was a small gathering, they had company. Just across the street, hundreds of their mostly white neighbors were there for decidedly different reasons. They leaned in front of local business the Daily Bagel and Rick's Smoke shop wearing military fatigues and bulletproof vests with blue bands tied around their arms. Fucking psychos. Most everyone seemed to be carrying something,

flags, baseball bats, hammers and axes, but mostly they carried guns. They said they came with shotguns, rifles, and pistols to protect their downtown businesses from outsiders. They had heard that Antifa, paid by billionaire philanthropist George Soros were being busted in from neighboring cities

hell bent on raising their idyllic town. Frederick Brigham 31 Klamath Falls resident a musician who goes by wreck the rebel said he never thought black lives matter protests would come to his town. That's one of the few black men who lives here he felt compelled to attend. But the presence of armed people who clearly did not support their group was chilling. It felt like walking through an enemy war camp, he said. While large rallies in major cities had been the most visible part of recent social efforts to change how police treat black people, hundreds more have popped up in small

rural towns where residents have marched and kneeled to protest police brutality. I have seen a lot of people online p-in th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, their the, the, the, the, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their their their their their their their their their their their the the the the, the, the, theateateateateateateat, thoooo, thooooooooomeate, theateate, the, the, the, their theal to protest police brutality. I've seen a lot of people online putting out that like, these protests in like small towns in Kentucky, where there's like hundreds of people out in the street. I've seen people saying like, if you grew up in one of these areas, you would know how really significant this is. Oh yeah. Um, but the most persistent rumors centered on groups of anti-fambers being put on buses and sent

to small towns to wreak havoc. Like it's also very weird that there's all these rumors and everything about something that just nobody's seen happen anywhere? It never happens does it? And like they've been planning this attack, this attack is for for so long but fuck it's gonna be really good when it happens. It's gonna be big one. Because they'd be planning for so long. The rumors are unfounded but that hasn't stopped people in some communities from preparing for the worst. Towns from Washington state to

Indiana have seen armed groups begin patrolling the streets after receiving warnings about an anti-for invasion, often spurred by social media are passed along from friends. Those actions have yet to erupt in major violence, but often bring heavily armed people in close contact with protesters. It's just, like, just the whole death wish fantasy. They want to do it so bad. They so bad wanted like, just get their fucking rifle that they bought and just use for like target practice or whatever, and they want to kill someone with it. They crave it so much. I, um, I saw a video recently, I think it's like the sort of pinned video to the NRA's profile

on Twitter. And it's about a guy who's like a rally driver killing somebody. But they phrased it as like, it's super awesome that this guy killed someone who was threatening his family. And he was talking about how he's practiced like close quarters gunfighting for however long. Where like, you know, you quickly pull up the front of your shirt and pull out your gun and like hip fire from the waist and then double tap someone in the head. And they have this guy on this thing going, I've done all of this training so that I was prepared when a man held a gun to the head of someone in

my family, little did he know that in mere seconds I would be ending his life with seven bullets. It's like, that's psychotic. To be like I have I have spent my life training my body for the potential situation where someone would be several meters away from me and I would have my gun with me and it would be loaded and somebody else would have a gun and they would be pointing it at my family member and like yeah that you know obviously the way they frame it is hey if you you know believe in your Second Amendment

rights and you've done all your gun training and all that sort of stuff, then you'll be prepared to defend your family if the worst happens. But you can't help get the feeling that if something like this actually did happen, that someone like that would also just be like their internal monologue would be like, oh my god, oh my god, it's finally happening! It's finally happening! I'm gonna get to kill a guy! I'm gonna get to stand my ground. Good Lord. Yep. And that's why you take you shotguns and your pistols and shit down to like a hundred people standing around and saying, please don't murder unarmed people. Because that is the scariest thing that anybody can come up with.

Oh my goodness. So this story goes on to talk about all these rumors and things that never happened. As you can tell, we already, one armed man said in a Facebook live with 124,000 views, ANTIFA members have threatened our town and said they're going to burn everything and kill white people, basically. Did they though? A lot of these people came out because they swore that antifa buses were in town. They couldn't believe that I was from here.

They thought I must be a black man that came from somewhere else. God damn, says Brigham. What do you think the process is, do they lease the bus? Is it a rental? I think Sauris is buying the buses. Well, after a point it becomes cheaper to actually own the bus, right? Well, he might have bought some type of bus company, you know? Oh. Vertically integrated antifer. So basically there's lots of private Facebook groups for local news where people post

their weird conspiracy stuff and things they claim to have heard over a police scanner. He's a post from the site. I am not the one to spread false information. Oh, it's such a good way to start that. Yep. A friend tells me is like the other one, the other good one. I am not the one to spread false information, one of the earliest posts stated. There are two buses heading this way from Portland, full of Antifo members and loaded with bricks.

And they've put Antifo all in caps there as if it's some sort of acronym. Yeah. Yeah. I think it would be way more fuel efficient to get the bricks when you arrive. Buy your bricks locally. Well, how much petrol are you going to go through if you load a bus up with people and bricks? That's true. It's going to affect the safety of your braking, you know, all kinds of stuff.

Their intentions are to come to claimeth false, destroy it and murder police officers. There have been rumors of the Antifa, lower case now, going into residential areas to quote, fuck up the white hoods. Ah, yep. So about antiffer they if they if they if they if they if they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they're they're they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they tha the. thea thea thea. tha tha. tha tha.a tha tha.a tha tha. thea. thea thea. the white hoods. Uh, yep. So, well, anti-fa they mean black people. Like, that's what they're using as a stand-in, right? That's, you can just... People who don't look like us.

Yeah. Yeah. But it's okay, right, because this is only information being diseneminated person to person from people that aren't authority figures, right? Yeah. That's great. Okay, okay. Great. Do you want to read the next part of the article? I suppose so. Some responding to the posts were incredulous but few could argue in a screenshot of a direct message from Colonel Jeff Edwards, the commander of the Oregon and National Guard's 173rd Fighter Wing, was posted in one of the groups. Team Kingsley, for your safety I ask you to please avoid the downtown area this

evening. We received an alert that there may be two bus loads of anti for protesters on route to Klamath Falls arriving in downtown around 2030 tonight," the post stated. Major Nikki Jackson, a spokesman for the 173rd Fighter Wing, confirmed in an email that the message had come from Edwards. Holy fuck. These people have their finger on the fucking button. They can press the button anytime they want, and this is how fucking gullible they want and this is how fucking gullible they are.

I guess if you spend all day like watching Fox News and listening to Tucker Carlson and got your satellite radio tuned to Sebastian Gorka, you know? Like there is truly no end to the stream of just absolute paranoid propaganda that you can funnel into your brain over there is that? That's terrifying. Pretty cool. The Antifa buses became a kind of local scavenger hunt. Someone spotted an empty green bus that claimed with Community College. A white bus with black lives matter and peace signs painted in green and blue was spotted in the Walmart parking lot. A local recognized that bus is belonging to a local musician, but others didn't buy it. Someone reported a U-Haul in front of the T.J. Max. God damn. Or maybe it was the

House of Shoes. That's just like... I can't... Try and picture these people running around with loaded weapons just being like, oh my god, there's a trailer in front of the place I buy jeans! Like, foreign... Oh, nightmare. My goodness. Rumors of marauding antifa buses have popped up on local social media networks all across the country, sometimes leading to direct, dangerous action by locals and police departments. It's just, it just goes on and on.

There's just so much of it. In the end, Klamath Falls' largest black lives amount of protests saw no looting, no fires and little violence apart from a few throne punches instigated by the armed side of the street. Oddly enough. Hmm. Strange. There was never the feel of a large contingention of th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, the, thi, thi, the, the, thi, the, the, the, thi, thi, thi, thi, their, their, th, the, th, the, the, the, thi, thi, thi, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, the, the, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, thooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, tho, tho, the, the street, oddly enough. Hmm, strange. There was never the feel of a large contingent of a lot of out-of-town folks, Klamath Falls, Police Department, Captain Ryan Broster House, told local newspaper Heraldon News. One person was cited for disorderly conduct and several were detained and released. Mostly intoxication, Broster House told the newspaper.

The armed man who live streamed the protest, who was worried about Antifah coming to murder white people, posted an update to his Facebook page, acknowledging the risk had been overblown. I know your hearts and minds were in the right place, he wrote incorrectly, but a lot of the info was bad. Cool. I know you're... Well, we got some bad info this time. But next time... Still others remain convinced Ancifah had been there there there there there there there there there thuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu. their thu. thu. thu. thu. thu. thu. thu. thu. thu. thu. thu. thu. thi. too. too. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. thi. thi. thu. thu. thu. thu. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. That. That. That. That. That. That. That. That. That. That. That. That's. That's. That's. That's. That's. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. So. A. A. A. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. W. That. That. That. That. time. Little bit of an intel. Still others remain convinced Ansefer had been there that night, run off by the side of hundreds of armed patriots.

And that's the story they're spreading online. Antifer retreats from suburb after business owner and neighborhood show up with guns, state of the headline on the website News Punch, one of the internet's most notorious fake news destinations. The article quotes of a bilietietiet the owner of a local billiards bar. Oh my God. This gets somehow even better. I have never felt a threat to my business as I did last night, Klein wrote in his

post. Antifa didn't make it to the courthouse and my bar had no incidents. Antifer walked into a hornet's nest. It was like a sixth grade football team walking into the Oakland Coliseum to take on the raiders. So let's just pick this apart a little can we? I have never felt a threat to my business as I did last night. He said, describing a threat that didn't exist that was entirely made up due to like, I don't know, xenophobia and basic kind of like otherness fear, but yet that's the biggest threat he's had in his entire life to the bar.

But this, this seems to be like the overwhelmingly consistent thing with the sort of antifer paranoia is that somehow people are able to simultaneously hold these conflicting things in their head, which is that antifa are all pathetic weakling SJW soy beta cucks who live in their mother's basements and have never been in a fight and couldn't make it onto the high school football team and are physically weak and mentally weak and they aren't strong patriots. But on the other hand, every single member of Antifa has been dipped in the forced evolutionary virus from fallout to grow 12 foot tall bristling with muscles teeth that grow outside of

their head and they keep just moaning something about the water chip that's their one goal in life and also I think in this analogy George Soros is the master. So, yeah, carry this all the way through it, that's right. I think people were worried that it wasn't fleshed out enough. No, that's right. So, but yeah, like somehow you have this conflicting thing of anti-fur these pathetic little babies. But also they are the greatest threat to anything. Yeah, and they're ready to rock any fucking time as well.

Like, the keyboard warriors. Yeah, except they show up. It's incredible. And of course, they seem to think that just saying, hey, if Antifur come into my town, I will Liam Neeson from taking them. And then nothing happens and they go, see? Told them what had happened and they got scared. Yeah, like, you don't want to just be quoting Simpsons the whole time, but the whole fucking thing is just the bear patrol. It's, it's ludicrous. Yeah, I think that it must be pretty cool to basically just be able to craft your own reality.

Yeah, that these people do. Absolutely. It's so hard thinking about things. Every day with this shit you've got to think about things. No thank you. Imagine things. Every day with this shit you got to think about things. Imagine the alternative. That's the alternative where you just get to work at your bar like normal and then say, I saw off an invasion of horrible anti-for warriors last night by staying at work. You know? I do. Cline's post received thousands of likes and shares and was posted in other local

Facebook groups. Reached by phone he said he was proud of the way the counter protest took a stand against Antifa and showed the world what would happen should any outside group try to bring a fight to claim it falls. But he also described a different scene than in his Facebook post, a peaceful protest from a small group of kids. I can see why they felt threatened somewhat because they actually were, Klein said of the Black Lives Matter protesters who faced the military on Sunday, we didn't know what we were up against, you know? They were just trying to make a peaceful demonstration and they ran into a fight.

Just accidentally realizing something there? There's no, yeah, there's absolutely like no critical thought into how this has actually come about. Nope. Like, oh, well, this could have happened to literally anybody who believed in Antifa Super Soldiers being bust around by George Soros. Yeah, like, like, it's not his fault that they got some bad intel that he made up. And then they showed up and threatened a bunch of kids with guns, baseball bats and axes, punched some of them.

And then afterwards he was like, yeah, pretty crazy. I mean, it must have been sort of scary for him. Like, yeah. Oh, well. They were just trying to do a peaceful demonstration. What are the odds? What are the odds that just this time, Antifa didn't show up? My goodness.

From the Associated Press, they said that police departments say that people are phoning in tips that they see on social media claiming that Antifa is sending buses or even planes full of Antifa activists to their area. Hearing word that HALO, that Antifer is undergoing a halo jump in the area. My God. In Payette County, Idaho, rural county of 24,000, the calls started early Monday morning after one Facebook user said the sheriff had spotted anti-for rioters in the area. The calls didn't taper off until the sheriff's office debunked the rumor on Facebook. They really need to explode Facebook with a bomb. It is poison.

It is absolute poison to the world. It's really a small community where our citizens knows pretty well, said Paiet County Sheriff, Lieutenant Andy Kreach. When the post got out there, we started getting phone calls directly. Meanwhile, Facebook users were also wanting their friends to stay clear of a shopping center in a New Jersey suburb saying it would be the center of Antifa destruction on Tuesday. Yet police had no credible information that Antifah would be would be the center of Antifa destruction on Tuesday. Yet police had no credible information that Antifa would be present in the area. Identical Facebook and Twitter posts about bus loads of Antifa protesters. Once again, the police didn't see any unusual bus activity in town. But the claim still spread for days ahead of a planned protest. Everyone heard that were going to be buses of people.

Sam Clemens, a public information officer for the department, said it was very specific. There were three bus loads. Even the owner of a Michigan limousine business was forced to refute online rumors when two of his buses became the center of a conspiracy theory that liberal financier George Soros was funneling protesters to Milan, Michigan. Social media uses widely shared a manipulated photo of his white buses edited to show the words Soros Riot Dance Squad and blazoned on the sides. Oh man. Oh man.

Chicago Police Department became convinced that 3,000 antifa super soldiers were on their way into Chicago and 12 buses to the extent that they sent a helicopter to look for the buses, even after Indiana Police said that there was nothing to it. This is all amazing because there's like a bunch of leftists on Twitter who have police scanners who are listening to this stuff and talking about it live. I believe if you've got that cued up there, Andrew, we've got a small snippet from Chicago Police Department radio on, I think this happened on May 30th.

Sure do. Here we go. Can PH1 pick up the 12 buses coming in on Hammond off of Skyway? P.H2, P.H2. P.H2, Chicago and Grand, they're able to make their way into the city. Now where are these buses supposed to be? They're holding on a skyway, making their way from Indianapolis on a skyway. Can you see them at all over the skyway coming in towards us? Can you give us us us us us us us us us us us us us us us us us us the the the the to to to to to to to to to to to to thuuuff to thuff thuffs thus thus thus thusk thusk to to to to to to to coming in towards us. Can you give us a heads up and see them?

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The helicopter's already in route. We have sent them. We've ever given the order. They are in route. I assure you. That's a road radio. Road radio. Motor X Skyway, wait for them. I'll let you know. 60. 60 cars, 60 cars. 60 cars.

Amazing, right? Just, and if this doesn't tell you that the police need to be defunded, that they can hear a rumor that there are bus loads of anti-fusupers soldiers coming in and immediately summon a helicopter to hover over a specific stretch of highway and tell us whether or not there are scary protesters coming. My God. And like, so it wasn't even just that they were like confused in the moment. Twitter user Lib underscore Crusher, found a blog post from, I think that the blog was called like Second City Cop. It's a, an active Chicago police department cop,

who the day afterwards did this blog post. So we get home at Zero Dark 30 and finally get a message issued at 23-30 hours last night that days off are cancelled and 12 hour shifts are in effect. So the no-o-t thing is over finally and a special salute, brackets, single finger to the media who didn't once break into active programming yesterday while downtown burned and hundreds of riders arrived via bus from Indiana. So this is the day after it he's still fucking convinced Antifa was busted from fucking Indianapolis. 3,000 riders.

Fucking, I can't, I just, that like, this is something that I think causes me genuine despair on like a profound level because it feels fucking hopeless is when you look at the extent to which this disinformation thrives, like, you know, you'll see something on Twitter that's like targeting this sort of margast stuff where it is like, so self-evidently false. And like,000 people will share it or whatever everyone the comments is like yes this is real fucking Don Trump Jr. will take a screenshot of it a poster or whatever and like no amount of fact-checking will ever reach these people they will be convinced that this is the reality of things until they fucking die of heart disease or whatever like

it's just such an intractable problem that you're like, what do you do? How do you stop that? How does that go away? You know, they, uh, it's, like you can't. How do you sort of address, like, communicating the way that, like, what leftist politics want to achieve in terms of social policy and rechanging how people's lives are for the better how do you cut through the fact that all of them currently believe that like this is part of the new world order how do you do that yeah and I think the fact that like so much effort has gone in over the last four or five years

to very specifically sort of saying, anything that comes from any of the following news sources is automatically false. Anything that comes from a news source that you don't like is false. Anything that says something that you don't like is false. Anything that says something that you don't like is obviously just fake. Yeah, just the extent to which we're doing the entire, hey, you can just decide for yourself which things are valid and which things aren't. You can just follow a whole bunch of Facebook pages that just post weird memes or Twitter accounts from like 60 year old women that are using those like crazy ass Instagram filters to remove any sort of

Wrinkles or blemishes to the point that they just have like non-descript white ovals with eyes on them big smooth moon face follow Marga Kathy for all of your news. God damn. She has 600,000 followers. It's very depressing. I don't know if there's like... Yeah, I don't know what anyone is supposed to do about any of that. I feel the same in that I just look at that and go, how are you supposed to go about unpicking this? Yeah.

Hey, if you've got a solution to the sickness that is currently at the heart of our society, right in. I'd love to hear it so much. I can sleep. I can sleep. A little more soundly. Yes, please do. Oh.

In some lighter news, from Ben's favorite publication, Boing Boing. I think it's pronounced Boing Boing. Boing Boing. Boing. Boying. Boyne. Boing. Boyle. Cole Karini, a 23-year-o-yo-oi. Cole Karini, a 23-year-old Virginia man who turned up at hospital, missing his hands and

peppered with shrapnel, claimed that he was hurt in a lawnmower accident. The FBI, however, says that he's a misogynist who fantasized about blowing up hot cheerleaders and was trying to assemble a bomb. And if you don't want to hear what happens, maybe just skip ahead a couple of minutes. Yeah, this is quite, it's graphic, but it happened to a bad person, so maybe it's funny. So who's to say? Who's to say? I'll let you know if it's funny. On June the second, Cole Karini of Richland were also gone, and he had shrapnel wounds to the neck and throat. When investigators got to the residence,

they found a trail of blood leading from a Murad Vinnyvan parked in the driveway to the front door of the house and up the stairs to a second floor bedroom. According to the creation of improvised explosive devices inside a footlocker. Beside the footlocker was a box filled with rusty nails and a plastic container, the top of which had been peel back in a manner consistent with an explosion, the affidavit said. The blinds in the room were damaged and a chunk of flesh was stuck to the ceiling. Whoops.

Whoops. That is quite a way to really commit yourself to the no-fap movement. Oh, Christ. Thank you. Jesus. Oh, no. Thank you. Jesus. Oh, no. We've all been extremely mad at women for existing and accidentally blown both of our hands off while trying to make a bomb full of rusty nails to kill them with.

It's only natural, it's human nature. Just kidding, it's not. This guy is horrible, and dare I say? Kind of deserved it. I mean, bold to go into the hospital. It'd be like lord mower accident. I... Hopefully no one checks my house.

There was something stuck in my lawn mower and I reached in to get it and it cut off all of my hand and so I was going to come to the hospital up but I was like I should probably get some of the other the bits of my hand and take them back and see if we can like someone back on or anything. Little did I know it was going to have a very similar effect on my other hand. You know that like super cool me once where you like you buy a lawnmower but you get like a cheap one and then you know you're using it and you hit like a particularly tightly packed clump of grass and then it just fucking explodes or removing both

of your hands. Yeah. All been there. That's why I tell my kids not to leave rocks on a lawn. Oh man okay so look I I didn't th I th I th I th I th I th I th I th I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't th th th th th th th th th th like I th like th tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho th like th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the they. I they. I they. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I the the the the the the the the the theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee thu the the the the the. I there. That's why I tell my kids not to leave rocks on a lawn. Oh, man. Okay, so look, I didn't want to, you know, maybe lawn mowers explode all the time. So I've googled lawnmower explosion. And nearly all of the results are about a man losing his leg after shooting a lawnmower full of explosives? Okay. Let me just, I might read the story to you here.

This is a story from USA Today from 2016. Go on. A Georgia man who was videotaped last week shooting at a Lord Moa packed with explosives lost his leg of the resulting explosion authorities say. According to the Walton County Sheriff's Department, a deputy responded to a 911 call Saturday about an explosion. The caller reported that 32-year-old David Presley was shooting at a mixture of ammonium nitrate and aluminum or aluminium powder in the woods and had possibly blown his legs off from the explosion.

Jesus. Possibly. Fuck man. Two of Presley's friends fashioned a turn-to get around his leg, helpingMS met the group there. EMS advised David was missing his left leg below the knee. Presley was airlifted to Greater Memorial Hoffler in Atlanta and is now recovering from the incident. One of Presley's friends told to Veska is they put three pounds of tannerite into an old lawnmower to blow it up. Okay. The incident was captioned on video. If you've got some spare time and you're not American, or at least your, or you're American

and you live in the city, look into Tannerite what it is and how extremely legal it is to buy unbelievable quantities of it in America. It will fuck you up. It is insane. One of Presley's friends told investigators, oh sorry, I already read that, the video shows Presley dressed in what appears to be a tactical vest, shooting a semi-automatic rifle at the lawnmower, getting off more than 20 shots. On the last shot, the lawnmower explodes. On the last shot the lawnmower explodes.

Shrapnel can be seen flying in all direction. I blew my leg off, Presley yells. Call it ambulance. Call it ambulance. Another voice is a herd yelling. You've got to feel pretty bad about that one. If you've done it to yourself, I mean. You would. It's the one thing you didn't want to happen. Tannerite is the brand name of a combination of ammonium nitrate and aluminium powder. When mixed and shot with a high velocity bullet, it creates loud noise and explosion, video showing such explosions that become popular on the internet.

We get a lot of calls about taunt right. It can be extremely dangerous if it is not used correctly, Walton County Sheriff Joe Chapman says. So I guess shooting a gun at it for fun, is that entirely incorrect usage or he should have just maybe been standing further back? So Tanner Wright is sold, just having a look at it now as firearms targets. Because you put them down range and you shoot it and if you've hit the target you don't have to go on check like you don't have to walk all the way down there because it will fucking explode. But I assume that that's the normal usage and you're not supposed to put a whole bunch of it inside of one small place and then explode it. Do shit with it where they'll like fill fucking barrels with it and stuff and just do these massive explosions. There's videos of people blowing up like their th. T. T th. T th. T th. T th. T th. T th. T th. T th. T th. T that that that that that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's thus thus thus thus that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's they no longer want. Like, yeah, it's insane.

But anyway, that video of that man blowing his leg entirely clean off with lawnmower explosion is freely available on the internet if you just want to search for that. And if you don't want to, don't. Yeah, content warning on that video. Content warning on the thing that you optionally can watch. Um, yeah. Now, Theo, hey, I've got an entry here in the notes entitled, Theo's hometown corner. I don't know who put those extra letters in there because when I put it in the document,

I spelled hometown the normal way with the noble amount of fowls. If you say so. What's that all about, Theo? Well, this is a story that Ben's brought to my attention several times now. I seem to just be dragging in front of me like a cat with a dead rat. I'm very proud of it. This is from the ABC and it is titled, Mackay's three-ton Fatberg blamed on coronavirus panic buying.

Um, And I feel like if you need a spiritual kind of summation of Mackay, this is probably the article. I can't believe they haven't made it the mascot of the town yet. It's the fat bough. Come to MacI, see the big fatberg. The fatberg. It's on the way of the crematorium. The record, the shortage of toilet paper as a result of coronavirus panic buying has been blamed after a record Fatberg was pulled from Mackay's Surridge Network. Now, when they say record, do you reckon they mean a record for Mackay?

Do you reckon they mean a record for Mackay? Is this a world record? I don't know, Mackay punches above its weight and a lot of things including gigantic assemblages of toilet paper shit piss and congealed fat And I'm not just talking about George Stance He's like... He's like... Oh boy. You're allowed to make fun of him because he's a really shitty person. He sucks.

He sucks so much. We... Is it you or Dave that said they went to a house party that he was at when they were still living in Mka. Oh, it must be Dave. He just said that he was asleep the whole time. Just like sitting in a chair completely asleep. It's not really that surprising that one, isn't it? Okay. All right. All right.

It's taken two separate operations. To remove the more than three-ton mass made up of flushable wipes, clothing, plastic and other items, just, just, just, just, the the the thems, thems, thems, thems, tham, tham, tham, just, just, just, and thi, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, thiaugheaugheate. thia, just, just like, just like thi and thi and thi and thi and thi and more than three ton mass made up of flushable wipes clothing plastic and other items from a pump station in the city I believe the pump station is what you used to call your bedroom when you were living. Absolutely it was not. I don't believe that Theo called his bedroom that. Let's cry. It's taken, sorry I read that Theo called his bedroom up. Let's cry. It's taken, sorry I read that, the blockage was so big a crane, hydraulic grappler and large vacuum tanker were needed and they only removed the tip of the berg according to engineers. Senior network engineer Keith Hyatt said the size of the burg was a serious concern.

Nothing to laugh about. The use of alternatives to to toilet paper is definitely a factor in what we've seen. It's potential for environment harm and risk for the public health and it's compounded here because it's the end of the line before the treatment plant. So what happens? So panicked buying, so coronavirus, panic buying 3 ton shipburg. Are people shitting more because of coronavirus? Well no, it's because, so I got confused by how they worded this as well actually, but what they're saying is because a select few of the people, panic bought all the toilet paper, people were forced to use things that weren't

toilet paper. So things like wipes. Wet wipes and stuff. Yep. Yep. So he says that only the three peas should be flushed down the toilet, pee, poo and paper. So don't flush flushables and that sort of stuff. They don't break down, so on and so forth. The second round of removal was not as large as first thought, with the mass being broken up by the grapple and then weekend rain flushing it through the system. That's a real like Futurama janitor kind of job, being the guy that like, that works the grapple to break up the three-ton fat burglars.

That's definitely Sal, the Futurama character who pluralizes all of the words at a sentence. Scruffy. No, Scruffy's the janitor. Sal is the recurring blue collar worker who pluralizes all of his words. You want, so I should. Yeah, that guy. No, no, I'm with you. I'm with you. How do you?

Yeah, so people are flushing a colostomy bag. Yeah, so I mean, I don't know. I'm going to say there's someone out there missing a Colostomy bag. Well, I mean, I don't know enough about Colossomy bags to know how they're... Are you tipping the contents of a Colossomy bag just into the toilet? And someone's just gone, whoops! Yeah, lost their grip? I think thrown. And then I accidentally landed on the flush button and now it's gone. Bouncy balls and even parts of a baby bottle. And the bouncy balls, I think, arguably, the fact that there are enough of them for it to be noteworthy? What's going on there?

Mr. Hyatt says, the public attitude about flushing items needed to change. It costs a lot of money to clear this and it's literally money being flushed down the toilet. I feel like we've known about this for a while now. So I didn't know about the wipes thing. I don't know. But wipes aren't part of my life anymore. I've moved past the need for wipes.

What? Okay. No, that's fine to leave that out for wipes. What? Um... Okay. No, that's fine to leave that out examined. Uh, so there's a whole thing in Australia and possibly the world, but I don't know about that, about flushable wipes, right? They'd see them in the wipe section, perhaps if you were still in that phase of your life when you needed wipes that we all went through. And they will advertise themselves as flushable wipes. That of course being the exception that proves the rule, implying that all other wipes are

non-flushable, which is true. But apparently these wives aren't either. And the A-triple-Z, who are, we simply must stand in a lot of regards, launched a lawsuit against Kiblik-K-K-K-K-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-cler-cler-c, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which the A-triple-Z who we simply must stand in a lot of regards, launched a lawsuit against Kimberley Clark, which owns Kleenex who manufactured these flushable wipes, trying to say that it was a false or misleading claim that they are actually flushable because they cause all these problems in our water treatment systems and such and they lost that case. The federal court in, what was that sorry? The A triple C lost the case or?

The A triple C lost, yeah, the federal court ruled in, I think it was a couple years ago, ruled in Kimley Clark's favor saying that there wasn't enough evidence that specifically these caused a problem, but the APPC is appealing, so hopefully that gets taken care of. Frustrating though. Sydney Water estimates it spends more than $8 million a year manually removing fatbergs or masses of wipes from sewage pipes. The cost across Australia is estimated to be more than $15 million a year. Marketing people, can't fucking trust them. You bloody can't. Can't trust them as far as I can flush them. Our crime pass for this week is a shoplift, flushable wipes and then dispose of them in the bin. I'll dispose them responsibly. Yes, don't flush them down the toilet.

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