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    Re: Even Trump's Not This Dumb. . .

    It's time for my favourite song ……………..:D:D
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-jsqZQ4OOY
  2. Thread: Apology

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    Re: Apology

    Steady on Sandy, leave his missus out of it. At ther time he became distressed I did not even know he had a wife.
  3. Thread: Ukraine

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    Re: Ukraine

    I would have thought that Kadyrov and Wagner had common interests in this? Namely weakening Putins hold? Putin's interests are the reduction of both their forces lest they become a threat.

    Any...
  4. Re: What do you think is the fastest way to calm a woman down when she is angry?

    Don't be there in the first place……………………
    There have been some good insights here amongst the usual male humour.
  5. Re: The USA doesn't have a monopoly on it....

    Odds of 1000 to 1 religious influences……………….. salted with industrial donors to Modi's party.
    Follow the money.
  6. Re: What do you think is the fastest way to calm a woman down when she is angry?

    Depends what/who made her angry………………..
  7. Thread: Apology

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    Re: Apology

    #2 , #22 Osborne……………...
  8. Re: JWST identifies 9600 km water plume from Saturn’s moon Enceladus

    and are there any pool builders in the neighbourhood?
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    Re: If we asked AI about climate change,

    :d:d
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    If we asked AI about climate change,

    and what the human species needed to do to halt, mitigate, or reverse the effect what would it say? And would we take any notice?

    (Not so sci-fi concept. AI, operating on a set of rules like the...
  11. Re: What is something you’d delete from earth?

    As would ''I'd miss some of you." ans every other human foible.
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    Re: What's going on in Poland?

    Seems like they are a natural fit with Putin…………..
  13. Thread: Oz Politics.

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    Re: Oz Politics.

    ..and the Greens go of half cocked as usual. Allow procedures to take their course.

    I'm concerned for his children now. It's not going be easy as the press will be insatiable.
  14. Thread: Apology

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    Re: Apology

    Civilised? With humans about it's always just a veneer masking the damage.

    The good we do is always at too big a price.
  15. Re: What is something you’d delete from earth?

    Humans, all of them all at once. The place would be quite pleasant without us and would recover in time.
  16. Thread: Oz Politics.

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    Re: Oz Politics.

    As an aside, Roberts-Smith has lost his defamation case… Quite a devastating judgement.
    10 days in court, maybe $35 million. What now for decorations?

    I see the US military isn't happy, they...
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    Re: Real? Or Fake? Dear God I hope its fake.

    I thought it was turtles………….
  18. Re: Something from the past that we need to bring back…

    LP's and players seem to be making a comeback here………………...
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    Re: Sailing with Parkinsons at 80

    I am minded of Peter Sibley, determined to build, launch and sail his boat before his brain tumour took him.
  20. Re: Congress-critter Dan Bishop says the quiet part out loud.

    Your civil war continues.
    You may need more than luck this time……and so may we all.
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    Re: Epidemic of loneliness

    I'm never lonely, I'm solitary and like it that way. I have a few friends, many and changing acquaintances but that has been my choice.
  22. Thread: Ukraine

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    Re: Ukraine

    I wonder if all this will be swept under the rug again, in the name of political convenience?.
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    Re: Memorial Day Reflections

    "Joe Biden remarked that my friends “dared all and gave all’ in defense of America"
    Much the same line was pushed here, despite the published evidence that it was a croc. Aussie young men were...
  24. Thread: Oz Politics.

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    Re: Oz Politics.

    On census night there were 1 million unoccupied houses, but that's not the complete story....
  25. Thread: Apology

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    Re: Apology

    "Lawyers are translators of that language."
    It has always been such, religions kept the great unwashed ignorant with language, trade guilds, the aristocracy, freemasonry, computer nerds…. etc. etc....
  26. Thread: Oz Politics.

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    Re: Oz Politics.

    There have been several applications to rent his spare bedroom…………….
  27. Thread: Family update

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    Re: Family update

    Our club's Int. Canoe sailor is building another. His is wood, don't know about the new one.
  28. Thread: Apology

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    Re: Apology

    The wealthy can always buy influence, and do.
  29. Re: Debt ceiling bill - the coming GOP Apocalypse?

    LOL!, I reread Machiavelli quite recently…………
  30. Thread: Oz Politics.

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    Re: Oz Politics.

    Re PWC. It strikes me that this is rather likely hiring a sex worker for the night, and then expecting them not to service any other clients. After all it's all about money.

    "Remembering, of...
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    Re: Fascism Revisited

    #1, seems time for a republish. A 2nd edition would hardly need any additional material.
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    Re: Political 'news' speak

    Never forget the private press is about making money and in many cases political influence to make more money. Their audience is the advertisers, not the the consumers. Truth and facts are a very...
  33. Re: what does your bottom ad look like on the forum -

    None
  34. Thread: Ukraine

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    Re: Ukraine

    https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/01/19/a-military-defeat-is-the-only-cure

    The promulgation of a 'crusade' mentality will make any result a very bloody one, and unlikely to be final in the longer...
  35. Thread: Ukraine

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    Re: Ukraine

    They need longer rubber bands………...
  36. Thread: Apology

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    Re: Apology

    I think Garret it very much depends on the personality concerned. Some work for corporations and they only have one client. Some work for criminals, and do very nicely unless they learn too much and...
  37. Thread: Oz Politics.

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    Re: Oz Politics.

    Parliament decides what the next stage is, Parliament is supreme, but the 'voice', the advice, the consultation will be permanent.
  38. Thread: Oz Politics.

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    Re: Oz Politics.

    I'm glad we have a referendum, and I do not understand why any politician allows another to dictate his attitude on this matter. But Dutton needs a win. The ballot is another matter.
    And frankly I...
  39. Thread: Ukraine

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    Re: Ukraine

    I doubt the drones came from Ukraine…… Maybe Russian dissenters………. drones are cheap and can be refitted.
  40. Thread: Oz Politics.

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    Re: Oz Politics.

    Oh yes, the MP's were running fore cover all over the place. Actual democracy rather than government by lobby group was a strange concept……………….
  41. Thread: Oz Politics.

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    Re: Oz Politics.

    "I keep hearing people talking about rebuilding the Public Service. I've had this discussion at high levels. Neither party has the courage to do it. Look busy, don't make decisions (you might get one...
  42. Thread: Ukraine

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    Re: Ukraine

    Its possible that the threat is more effective against Russian troops on the ground than an actual attack. Raising the stress level so that when one actually comes the effect is amplified.
    Psych....
  43. Thread: Oz Politics.

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    Re: Oz Politics.

    The NSW corps is never far from the NSW government or policing.

    Down in Vic we had Tommy Bent, and well named he was too.

    To get preselection from Lib/Lab you have to be compromised. Neither...
  44. Thread: Oz Politics.

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    Re: Oz Politics.

    Re the PWC consultants playing on both teams at once. "Someone will always leak"…… One panelist making excuses on the drum. More than one, but I bet no one will go to jail.
    Another fail by the...
  45. Thread: Apology

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    Re: Apology

    At the risk of reoffending…………….
    "An odd omission for a profession intimately tied to the very notions of right, wrong, and justice."

    That's a very grand assumption.
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    Re: COVID rates are up

    Infections of a newer strain are up here too……. Few are wearing masks and until the death rate goes up significantly I do not expect a change, if then. Governments are following public reaction as...
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    I'm watching the Great Dictator

    Chaplin

    All the stormtroopers have American accents…………. ahem………..https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/styles/content_full_width_image_730/public/2020-11/Oath%20Keepers%202_0.jpg?itok=mZp2jNVT...
  48. Thread: Byob !!!!!!

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    Re: Byob !!!!!!

    Yeah……..we wus robbed…………...
  49. Thread: Apology

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    Re: Apology

    …..and aint that the truth…………….
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    Re: Memorial Weekend Shootings

    It's cultural. Don told me.
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