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01-31-2023, 02:54 PM

skuthorp replied to a thread Ukraine in The Bilge

That threat has always been there since the tech has been there, but Boris can easily just be self-aggrandising.

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01-31-2023, 02:47 PM

skuthorp replied to a thread Oz Politics. in The Bilge

In that there was no King, or central government? Britain still stole the place and we are the inheritors. The fact of the existence of a patently...

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01-31-2023, 02:30 PM

skuthorp replied to a thread California Drought in The Bilge

Consumption beyond the actual means again…..still…..

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01-31-2023, 06:51 AM

skuthorp replied to a thread Oz Politics. in The Bilge

Well, that didn't take long did it? Lugs has nailed his flag to the mast and makes Ian look positively benign on the subject. No point in any...

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01-30-2023, 11:21 PM

skuthorp replied to a thread Ukraine in The Bilge

I think it extremely unlikely Aus will ever have an American built nuke powered submarine, at least not in the next 40 years. I'd take bets on it but...

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01-30-2023, 05:02 PM

skuthorp replied to a thread Ukraine in The Bilge

Aus and France are jointly going to manufacture artillery shells for Ukraine.

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01-30-2023, 06:38 AM

skuthorp replied to a thread Oz Politics. in The Bilge

Cash? What was the point in petitioning a piece of work like that in a government like that? The petitioners wasted their energies and they must...

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01-30-2023, 05:57 AM

skuthorp replied to a thread Oz Politics. in The Bilge

Thorpe. A spoiler with demagogic tendencies pushing her own barrow I reckon. It's all about her. The perfect being the enemy of the good. She'll...

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01-30-2023, 05:30 AM

skuthorp replied to a thread Ukraine in The Bilge

With the advent of AI and the Chat GPT, I wonder if we are just being led along by an early Russian development of a chat bot?:D It also seems to...

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01-30-2023, 04:48 AM

skuthorp replied to a thread Oz Politics. in The Bilge

It's about time that the catholic church was declared a prohibited organisation. If it's good enough for Hamas, it's good enough for Opus Dei. It...

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01-30-2023, 03:40 AM

skuthorp replied to a thread Ukraine in The Bilge

Russians claim that Ukraine has hit a hospital in the occupied territories with Himars……...

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01-30-2023, 03:32 AM

skuthorp replied to a thread Oz Politics. in The Bilge

Misfeasance in Office. Interesting developments in the Robodebt enquiry. Public servants as well as MP's past and present, including Robert and...

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01-29-2023, 08:26 PM

skuthorp started a thread Predictive text in The Bilge

I am fed up to the back teeth with predictive text. It means I have to proof read every *^%@# post, and I'm heartily sick of it!!:arg

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01-29-2023, 08:23 PM

skuthorp replied to a thread Ukraine in The Bilge

I was aware of that ACB, nevertheless I dfo think that it's a matter of time, especially if Ukraine uses the new arms effectively and pushes the...

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01-29-2023, 08:21 PM

skuthorp replied to a thread 6 year old busted a cap into his teacher. in The Bilge

96 hours…………… The kid is 6. That whole paragraph is quite disgusting.

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01-29-2023, 08:16 PM

skuthorp replied to a thread Ukraine in The Bilge

"My guess is they will build a NATO armored brigade……" The 'proxy war' becoming less proxy by the day………...

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01-29-2023, 08:12 PM

skuthorp replied to a thread Would you buy one of these Canoos? in The Bilge

Body shape is familiar……from the late 1940's But the styling goes back earlier than that

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01-29-2023, 08:04 PM

skuthorp replied to a thread Bear Takes 400 Selfies! in The Bilge

I wonder if that bear has an agent yet…………………?

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01-29-2023, 05:53 PM

skuthorp replied to a thread Kevin McCarthy in The Bilge

It's all about precedent, no politician wants to create that precedent where a former President is jailed, and by implication all thse politicians...

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01-29-2023, 05:44 PM

skuthorp replied to a thread Trump is Toast in The Bilge

The foot dragging by the Dems and thr DOJ etc stems from a desire NOT to reate a precedent by jailing an ex President. A case of 'there but for……..'...

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01-29-2023, 05:34 PM

skuthorp replied to a thread California Drought in The Bilge

……and how many water contracts have already been sold 'in anticipation', and what happens if the anticipated water does not appear?

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01-29-2023, 05:27 PM

skuthorp replied to a thread Ukraine in The Bilge

America needs a 'face off' with someone almost as much as China does. I both cases its a distraction from the internal situation.

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